Serverless is a compute tier for single databases in Azure SQL Database that automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for the amount of compute used per second.

Microsoft has run a preview of a serverless option for Cosmos DB for a while now, based on its core SQL API. It’s an interesting alternative to the traditionally provisioned option.

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 ...

Microsoft updated its extension for tying its lightweight Visual Studio Code editor into the Azure cloud for serverless, SQL-based Big Data analytics. Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code ...

NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading independent cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced the realization of its vision to enable customers ...

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse keeps getting better. It now has several new features, such as Result-set Caching, Materialized Views, and support for sorted columnstore indexes.