From the course: Learning Cloud Computing: Serverless Computing
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Azure Functions
From the course: Learning Cloud Computing: Serverless Computing
Azure Functions
- [Illustrator] So now let's look at the second serverless system for this course, which is Azure Functions. Azure functions is basically very similar to AWS Lambda and ultimately they're going after the same goals, the ability to abstract the developer away from having to deal with servers, either virtual or physical. So again, it's event-driven and ultimately we're able to build Azure App Services using this platform, and it integrates with the Native Services that Azure provides in Azure Databases, Azure QS, Azure Security, Azure Governance, all that stuff basically comes along for the ride. So the Azure Functions are called Nanoservices or microservices ultimately that can scale on demand. So the ability to create functions allows us to create services that basically have an almost unlimited amount of resources that can be invoked to support the execution of those services. So the features ultimately include…
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