Microsoft announced a new App Service for its Azure cloud platform today that gives developers a one-stop shop for services that help them build different kinds of cloud-backed apps. The service ...

Microsoft is launching Azure App Service today, a new cloud-based service that gives developers a single service for building mobile and web apps, combined with tools for automating business processes ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Microsoft Corp. has made good on an earlier promise, announcing on Wednesday that its fully-managed Azure App Service platform for building web and mobile applications is now generally available on ...

Microsoft recently unveiled Azure App Service, a new cloud service which combines three older products: Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services, and Azure BizTalk Services. Uniting web, mobile, and ...

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In early March I reviewed the AWS Mobile SDK, Google Firebase, and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, the mobile back-end service offerings of the three major public clouds. The Microsoft option was a ...

Developers currently on the three standalone platforms will not have to pay higher subscription rates -- individual services will simply be integrated with the other two. Microsoft also recently ...