And for Azure SQL Database customers that need to scale compute and memory as needed, Microsoft rolled out a new serverless pricing option that lets developers pay by the second for their usage.

That serverless approach makes Functions ideal for event-driven computing, a model that’s closely related to the microservice architectures that are increasingly popular for born-in-the cloud code.

A few months back, Google Cloud launched serverless Spark, while Microsoft introduced serverless SQL pools for Azure Synapse (which allows query to external Spark tables), and Databricks offers a ...

Microsoft's first Azure Stack are set for release from Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo in September with initial architecture and pricing now available.