Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

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With Amazon Web Services hosting its annual conference this week, talk about the price for performance and agility equation will be everywhere. Knowing AWS' re:Invent is kicking off this week, the ...

A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for a different reason. With last week’s Amazon Web Services outage still ...

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud computing platform today. This update includes the launch of a couple of new features for developers who want to run large-scale, compute-intensive ...

Microsoft today announced that in the second quarter of 2016 — the fourth quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year — compute usage on its Azure public cloud more than doubled year over year. Azure ...

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Microsoft is increasingly working with and contributing to open-source projects, particularly in the cloud, under CEO Satya Nadella. (Microsoft File Photo) Microsoft’s cloud business is making two ...