Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises, hybrid implementations.

Part of Azure’s core PaaS features, Logic Apps gives you a no-code development environment for basic workflow-driven application integration.

Mark Russinovich, the chief technologist for Microsoft's Azure, reflects on bringing AI from cloud to edge, a process that in over time may look like a very big Visual Basic app.