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AWS recently announced the general availability of Lambda Function URLs, a feature that lets developers directly configure a HTTPS endpoint and CORS headers for a Lambda function without provisioning other services. With the new feature developers can avoid relying on the Amazon API Gateway or the Application Load Balancer to map a Lambda function to a HTTP call. Each function URL is globally unique and can be associated with a function’s alias or the function’s ARN, implicitly invoking the latest version.  Alex Casalboni , principal developer advocate at AWS, explains the scenarios where to use the new feature helps:  Function URLs are best for use cases where you must implement a single-function microservice with a public endpoint that doesn’t require the advanced functionality of API Gateway, such as request validation, throttling, custom authorizers, custom domain names, usage plans, or caching. For example, when you are implementing webhook handlers, form validators, mo...

Creating an App Service Inside the Azure portal, I want to create a new App Service. So I'm going to come over into App Service. I can see that I currently have no App Services in this subscription, so I will click the add button create an app Service is to select a starting template that might include some pre-configured software. For example, if I scroll down through the list of available templates here, I can see that I can start with a WordPress site running on the Linux operating system and many other options available. So when working with platform as a service features, that we don't worry about the operating system. I can see there's Web App + SQL, which will create an App Service for me plus give me an Azure SQL instance, but I'm going to look for just the basic, most simple web application and I click that, I come to another blade that opens where I can read through a description of Web App and then click create.  First of all, I have to...