Microsoft Azure Functions

Next up, we are going to take a look at Microsoft's serverless offering, Azure Functions. Microsoft describes this service as:

"Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud. You can write just the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it."

Like Lambda, there are several ways your Function can be invoked. In this quick walkthrough, we will be deploying a Function which is called using an HTTP request.