Joe Carlyle, writing on WeDoAzure, looked into what parts of Azure are always free. As of 2019, 25 services are free but many are add-ons for other systems and aren't standalone. According to Carlyle, ...

The quickest way to launch a containerized application on Azure is with a new service called Azure Container Instances. With the service, enterprises can run one or more containers on managed server ...

Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a service that enables a developer to deploy containers on the Microsoft Azure public cloud without having to provision or manage any underlying infrastructure.

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...