Easiest way to run Java program in the Cloud?

Question

I'm working on a small side-project for our company that does the following:

• PDF-based documents received through Office 365 Outlook are temporarily stored in OneDrive, using Power Automate
• Text data is extracted from the PDFs using a few Java libraries
• Based on extracted data an appropriate filename and filepath is created
• The PDFs are permanently saved in OneDrive

The issue right now is that my Java program is locally-run, i.e. point 2,3,4 require code to run 24/7 on my PC. I'd like to transition to a Cloud-based solution.

What is the easiest way to accomplish this? The solution doesn't have to be free, but shouldn't cost more than $20/mo. Our company already has an Azure subscription, though I'm not familiar yet with Azure.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is a solution that uses a serverless computing execution model. Azure Functions seems to be a possible choice here. It does seem to have input bindings that respond to OneDrive files and an likewise output bindings.

The cost will depend on the number of documents, not the time the solution is available. I assume we are talking about a small number of documents a month so this will come out cheaper than other execution models.