The following are some of the benefits of serverless computing:

• Faster time to market as you can write code in the functions editor in the Azure portal and click on Run for execution
• No need to worry about the infrastructure and provisioning resources
• Easy bindings to services and external services
• Create functions in multiple languages as supported by the cloud service provider
• Pay only for what you use
• More cost-effective than IaaS and PaaS
• No configuration is required to set up scaling in and scaling out policies

In the next section, we will cover an overview of the Azure Functions.