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.

U-SQL is a variant of the Structured Query Language -- combining declarative SQL with imperative C# -- designed to help developers efficiently analyze data in various relational stores, including ...

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.

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.

Behold the power of AWS into forcing Microsoft to choose a dumb name like Azure SQL Database Serverless. Clearly, I’m not a fan of the name, but the product itself is very coll.