Choose the best Azure serverless technology for your business scenario
linking:: AZ-900, Azure-Management
Identify the product options
Azure Functions
- Single method or function using programming language
- Response to event (HTTP request, message queue, timer)
- Auto scaling, charges when triggered
- Stateless, but can be connected to Azure Storage Account
- Durable Functions allows chaining while maintaining states
Azure Logic Apps
- Low code/no code hosted development platform
- App, data, system, enterprise application, and b2b integration
- Web based designers based on triggers
- Has gallery of over 200 connectors
Both can call each other. Functions is serverless compute, logic apps is serverless orchestration. Azure Functions pricing is based on the number of executions and the running time of each execution. Logic Apps pricing is based on the number of executions and the type of connectors that it utilizes.