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.

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.

Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL Database, which brings together the benefits of serverless and Hyperscale into a single database solution.

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 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.

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Microsoft also plans to announce other new capabilities for Azure serverless developers at its Ignite conference, where CEO Satya Nadella will give a keynote speech Monday morning.

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