Why developers like Azure Websites

What is Azure Websites?

Azure Websites is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds. Focus on your application code, and let Azure take care of the infrastructure to scale and securely run it for you.

Azure Websites is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Azure Websites?

Companies

72 companies use Azure Websites in their tech stacks, including Microsoft, Performance Assessment Network (PAN), and simplement-e.

Developers

34 developers use Azure Websites.

Azure Websites Integrations

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Why developers like Azure Websites?

Here’s a list of reasons why companies and developers use Azure Websites

Top Reasons

Ease of deployment

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Azure Websites Reviews

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Azure Websites in their tech stack.

Farzad Jalali

Senior Software Architect at BerryWorld · a month ago | 8 upvotes · 1.7K views

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Websites

Azure Functions

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

#AzureApps

#AzureAD

#AzureKeyVault

#Azure

Visual Studio Azure DevOps Azure Functions Azure Websites #Azure #AzureKeyVault #AzureAD #AzureApps

#Azure Cloud Since Amazon is potentially our competitor then we need a different cloud vendor, also our programmers are microsoft oriented so the choose were obviously #Azure for us.

Azure DevOps Because we need to be able to develop a neww pipeline into Azure environment ina few minutes.

Azure Kubernetes Service We already in #Azure , also need to use K8s , so let's use AKS as it's a manged Kubernetes in the #Azure

James Mundy

Founder, Foundbite at Foundbite · 3 years ago | 1 upvotes · 558 views

Foundbite

Azure Websites

We use Azure's Websites to host our app and site. Continuous deployment from GitHub is the handiest feature, check in and before you know it your updated site is already online. Azure Websites

Dirk Eisenberg

4 years ago | 1 upvotes · 554 views

Azure Websites

Azure WebSites is the fully managed scalable platform for hosting web content and running background jobs. Azure Websites

Azure Websites's features

.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python
Built-in AutoScale and Load Balancing
High Availability with Auto-Patching
Continuous Deployment with Git, TFS, GitHub
SQL Databases, MySQL, DocumentDB, Search, MongoDB
WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, Drupal

Azure Websites Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Azure Websites?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

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.

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.

Apollo

Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

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