Azure Batch is an interesting example of a new generation of PaaS services that look and behave like traditional IaaS, but with the underlying infrastructure and operating system managed for you.

The new year promises rapid growth in containers, serverless and cloud-first application platforms. Kurt Marko identifies the PaaS tools to watch in 2017 Infrastructure services and packaged ...

Azure Functions provides the serverless compute component of a serverless architecture. As shown in Figure 1, Azure Functions builds on top of Azure App Service and the WebJobs SDK, adding a bit of ...

PaaS or IaaS - Mike Schutz, Microsoft’s General Manager, Cloud Platform Product Marketing, explains Azure's pitch against the likes of Amazon and Google. ... Microsoft, Azure and the PaaS push against ...