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Azure Functions – Significant Improvements in HTTP Trigger Scaling

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Re: Azure Functions – Significant Improvements in HTTP Trigger Scaling

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Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda? What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

Yes it is.

What do you mean by Microsoft-specific stuff? I run a bunch of stuff there. When I started using these things their PaaS offerings were much more mature than the AWS counterpart (since they focused more on IaaS).

Re: Azure Functions – Significant Improvements in HTTP Trigger Scaling

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Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda? What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

yes people use Azure to host all sort of services, OSes, programming languages etc. Companies run Microsoft stuff on Google cloud and AWS too, surprising eh?

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Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda? What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

> Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda?

Yes.

> What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

Azure has a decent offering even if you don't have any "specific affinity to Microsoft". You can use Azure to develop products that don't use any Microsoft technologies. Although from my own experience, Azure tends to be a bit rough around the edges especially when used with non-Microsoft tools and languages.

See marketing page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-vs-aws/

Re: Azure Functions – Significant Improvements in HTTP Trigger Scaling

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Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda? What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

> What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

We have data residency requirements to keep things in Canada. This actually forced us to migrate off AWS, first to IBM, then eventually to Azure.

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Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda? What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

> What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS? We have data residency requirements to keep things in Canada. This actually forced us to migrate off AWS, first to IBM, then eventually to Azure.

There is an AWS region in Montréal.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-canada-central...

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