Microsoft recently announced a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure- making it easier to develop solutions for ...

Figure 1. The new Azure Web and mobile app services offer scalable Web, device, logic, and API app back ends. The API Management and Notification services in this category are not new. Azure SQL ...

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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 ...

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.

In addition, the Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL are generally available, providing customers with fully managed homes for their open source databases in Microsoft’s cloud.

Until Microsoft adds a native command that easily connects virtual directories to Azure Web apps, we're going to have to do it ourselves.

While the above eight items are on Azure Web App (Platform-as-a-service), let us also take a quick peek at a few cool stuff which can also be done using Virtual Machines (Infrastructure-as-a-service).

Figure 2. A Web Application Firewall setting is listed for a standard application gateway. Clicking on the WAF setting causes Azure to display an option to upgrade to the WAF tier.

Azure Web PubSub is a classic publish-and-subscribe architecture, with the hubs treated as the publisher and clients as subscribers.