Azure Stack fully supports serverless computing. This is where cloud computing could evolve in the future. As in public Azure, this feature is called Azure Functions.
Azure Functions provide a way to run code in a cloud environment and get results, but do not prepare any environment for it; just throw the code to the cloud, wait to get the results, and only pay for the time you use this service.
You could use these functions in the following use cases:
- Timer-based scenarios (for example, cron-jobs in databases for cleaning up)
- Event procession, based on WebHook (for example, exporting newly discovered data in a blob storage to an SQL database)
- SaaS event processing (for example, using Outlook email to export an attachment to OneDrive)
- Serverless web application architectures (for example, transferring webpage inputs to an automation script)
- Serverless mobile backends (for example, creating a thumbnail for a picture once it has been taken)
- Real-time stream processing (for example, transforming the data of thousands of devices and saving the important data to a database)
- And many more