From the course: Cloud Native Projects: Azure Serverless
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Understanding serverless - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Cloud Native Projects: Azure Serverless
Understanding serverless
- [Instructor] Before we get too deep, let's take a look at what serverless is and how it operates at a conceptual level. Now, many times you may hear the word serverless and immediately think, well, there's no server. Well, that's not true. There obviously is a server. The difference here is that you are paying for operations, not for the server itself, and there's a reason for this. This allows the cloud provider to aggregate a whole bunch of functions instead of you dedicating that VM hardware for downtime. So again, you are not paying to run a VM, you're paying for the operations, but there is still a server, even though this technology name is serverless. Another aspect is you are not managing the runtime of VM. Now, even in cloud, where the VM is controlled by cloud infrastructure, you still have maintenance of a running VM, whatever form of compute it is. So that is where the benefit comes from, is not only…
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