Is there a better link to the product and its features instead of a tutorial?

This is the one I found, sorry :/ But it looks like pretty close feature parity with Netlify and Vercel.

You shouldn't editorialize the title like you did.

If sctb or dang see this thread and could change it -

Static Web Apps from Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/stati... would certainly be a better description.

Why shouldn't one do that? I found this to be the best description and I used it. Isn't this the way forums work?

It could very well be the best description, title mentions names of 2 companies. Why not other? You see it becomes to pedantic to fast when everyone puts their own title after their liking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "

Gotcha! Wasn't really aware of this.

Could this be "geocities" anew?

Seems like more big company crowding into niches innovated on by smaller players because they can't come up with innovation of their own. We need new antitrust laws to prevent the degree of capital and labor accumulation that hinder innovation and sustained healthy competition.

Seems like most companies have one of these, including Google (Firebase Hosting + Functions). It seems like a common platform, however I always have trouble imagining what is the use case, especially in scalability (Function/Lambda is fine for small projects, but feels like it's not widely scalable and still has a lot or limitations)

The best way to think about lambda at scale is as "glue layer" that is a way to call your backend (e.g. on GCP/AWS). But as you're getting started, you can just do all the functionality on serverless, w/o dealing with deploys, etc.

What would be the benefits vs hitting your API directly? (Having a "normal" API server)

It has some value add features, like authentication that you don't have to handle. It's also an autoscaling API layer if all it needs to do is query several of your backend services. It's probably less useful if you have a monolithic app so all the requests are just passed through, unless you use a lot of the value adds.

I'm not a Lambda expert though, there might be things I missed.