For ApplicAtion Development & Delivery proFessionAls
The Forrester New Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2020
February 27, 2020
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The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Microsoft: Forrester's Take
our evaluation found that Microsoft (see Figure 5):
› Leads the pack with robust programming model and integration capabilities. azure Functions
supports a multitude of programming languages with extensive integration options. durable
Functions provides stateful capabilities and bindings for azure event Hub, and azure event Grid
helps developers build event-driven microservices.
› Needs to improve observability and extensibility. operational visibility of azure Functions could
improve. The ecosystem of tool and framework providers could also be stronger.
› Is a good fit for companies that need stateful functions. Strategic adopters of azure will find
that azure Functions helps integrate Microsoft's fast-expanding array of cloud services. clients
modernizing enterprise apps will find that durable Functions offers an alternative to refactoring
existing business logic into bite-size stateless chunks.
Microsoft customer reference Summary
Microsoft customers call out the responsiveness of azure Functions engineering and support teams as
key to their success. But enterprise capabilities like prewarmed workers and vneTs require a premium
plan, and consumption costs add up over time.
FIGUre 5 Microsoft Quickcard
REFERENCE QUOTES
Differentiated
On par
Needs improvement
"Azure engineering teams are
eager to help us build out and
scale our use cases."
"Durable functions are really
useful and expand what we
can do with Azure Functions."
"Function scale-out can
sometimes be slower than
we'd like."
Developer experience
Programming model
Runtime execution envir.
Observability
Integrations, APIs, and
events
Security features
Extensibility
Vision
Roadmap
Market approach
Products evaluated
Azure Functions
Microsoft
Wave position
LEADER
