Azure App Service

Azure App Service is a PaaS offering by Microsoft, and it is used for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends. We can choose our desired programming language, such as .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python, and can host it in Azure App Service.

This service is in demand these days and is preferred over VMs because it requires less managerial effort while offering various other benefits. Development in Azure App Service is also faster and easier as compared to VMs.

This illustration connects two web apps that have a shared code, are connected to the SQL server, and have encrypted connections using Azure Key Vault.

Benefits of Azure App Service

It offers the following features that distinguish it from others:

• Easy deployment: We can quickly deploy it through Visual Studio, but we can also deploy it through other tools e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.

• It offers multiple apps under the same Azure App Service plan. In case we want to separate them at any point, we can just simply create different Azure App Service plans.

• Ability to autoscale: We can set up autoscalingThe ability of a system or application to scale up and down based on real-time demand of the instances depending on the CPU consumption. The SLA guarantee that Azure App Service doesn’t go down is already provided by Microsoft.

• Pay-as-you-go subscription: We only pay for the services that are active on our Azure ...