What is Azure App Service?
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps created with popular frameworks .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, PHP, Ruby, or Python, in containers or running on any operating system. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance requirements by using the fully managed platform for your operational and monitoring tasks.
Azure App Service is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Who uses Azure App Service?
Companies
90 companies reportedly use Azure App Service in their tech stacks, including Mews, Global, and Core Banking.
Developers
206 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure App Service.
Azure App Service Integrations
Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and .NET are some of the popular tools that integrate with Azure App Service. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Azure App Service.
Pros of Azure App Service
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Decisions about Azure App Service
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Azure App Service in their tech stack.
Mehdi Baaboura
Managing Director at Gigadrive · | 2 upvotes · 23.2K views
Easier setup and integration for PHP based applications. Azure App Service requires a lot of extra configuration, while AWS Elastic Beanstalk has most things set-up out of the box. On top of this, Azure is much more expensive.
Azure App Service Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure App Service?
Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
Google App Engine
Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
Azure Service Bus
It is a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds. You can depend on it when you need highly-reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services, even when one or more is offline.
