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A retail company wants to build a lightweight event processing workflow that executes custom code only when specific events occur, such as when a customer places an order via an HTTP request or when a new message arrives in a queue.
The development team wants a serverless compute option that eliminates server management, scales automatically with demand, and charges only for the compute time consumed during execution, scaling down to zero when idle.
Which Azure service should the company choose?
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Azure Functions is an event-driven, serverless compute service in Microsoft Azure that allows developers to run small pieces of code (functions) on demand without having to provision, manage, or maintain underlying servers or infrastructure.
Azure Functions is the standard serverless compute option in Azure specifically engineered for running event-triggered micro-tasks and event handlers without requiring virtual machines, cluster orchestrators, or dedicated host configurations.