Prepare for AZ-900: Azure App service
Tags: azure
Published: 2023-01-13 17:33:58

- If you have a **static website**, you can host that using **Azure Storage services**.



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- For something sophisticated, you can use **Azure VM** 

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- For **microservice based website**, you can use the **Azure Kubernetes Service**

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But the most suggested service is the App service.

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it's more f PaaS .
These are the supported language frameworks by the App service.

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You can also decide which OS to run this language.

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Here ASP.NET can be run only on windows.


**Benefits:**

- You can also use it after proper containerization of your application.

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- You can integrate with VS Code and VS

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- You can also integrate them with CI/CD tools .

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- You can also use app service to host mobile back end and APIs.

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- Also it provides high availability, scalability and security options.

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**Price plans**

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Although you can easily choose the OS and Region, the price tier is tough though.
There are multiple price tiers:

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A total idea:

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you can also check that from the website.

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For the free tier:

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It has max 60 min CPU min per day.

For the shared tier:

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You can do 240 CPU min per day.

Here custom domain is a great benefit.

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For basic tier:

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For standard one:

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and so on.