App Service — Build and Host Web Apps

OVERVIEW

Create enterprise-ready web apps in the cloud

Quickly develop and run web apps and APIs in the cloud with PaaS tools, services, and systems that support the web application lifecycle.

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Protect your apps with built-in security features and compliance certifications.

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Let developers focus on developing great software without worrying about hardware using pre-coded application components.

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A 2022 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting found 228% ROI over 3 years, with a 15-month payback period.

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FEATURES

Migrate and modernize on your own terms

Develop in your preferred languages

Get first-class support for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python, in containers, or running on both Windows and Linux.

Automate deployment and scaling

Reduce time and effort, save costs, and enable reliable and efficient operation with automatic workload management.

Incorporate Zero Trust principles

Verify every access request with extensible built-in authentication and authorization (“easy auth”) capabilities.

Gain high availability and resiliency

Ensure that apps remain available during unexpected outages with a 99.95% uptime service-level agreement (SLA).

Secure your apps against cyberattacks

Meet enterprise performance, security, and compliance requirements with actively secured and hardened platform components.

Build future-ready web apps and APIs

Containerize your apps and APIs and host a custom Windows or Linux container in Azure App Service.

GUIDANCE AND TOOLS

Accelerate success with free technical guidance, resources, and tools

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Enterprise app patterns

Get prescriptive guidance and reference architecture built by developers, for developers to migrate web apps to the cloud.

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Advanced app migration

Use Azure Migrate application and code assessment for migration based on analysis of app structure and dependencies.

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WordPress on Azure App Service

Create a WordPress site on App Service with Microsoft support and easily deploy and manage it through the Azure portal.

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Microsoft partners for app migration

Migrate enterprise apps to Azure with Microsoft partners that offer a depth of expertise on complex solution areas.

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Microsoft Copilot for Azure

Make complex tasks more manageable, foster a collaborative environment, and enhance user experience with Copilot.

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SECURITY

Built-in security and compliance

Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.

We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.

Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.

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PRICING

Take advantage of a wide range of flexible and cost-effective plans

Explore pricing plans and tiers on Windows and Linux from entry-level, low-cost Premium v3 plans to large-scale plans that support up to 64 cores and 256 GB memory.
Expand developer access with free tiers and dev/test discounts.
Manage cloud spending with the Azure savings plan for compute and reserved instances.

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CUSTOMER STORIES

See what customers are doing with Azure App Service

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“A major part of KymChat’s scalability comes from Azure App Service, which allows it to automatically scale based on live metrics and events within the business. We can add new use cases and ingest new data sets without any degradation of service.”

Robert Finlayson: Senior Product Manager, KPMG Australia

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“It was a natural evolution for us, moving from on-premises hosted .NET applications over to the Microsoft Azure cloud environment...to be able to migrate our applications seamlessly over to the cloud was a hassle-free exercise for us.”

Sahil Gupta: SVP Head of Application Development, NBA

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“Nexi’s services and products are technology based, so modernization has been a natural path of the solution evolution as technologies enabled new opportunities.”

Lars Einar Harberg, IT Director eCommerce Payments, Nexi Group.

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“We believe that the future of our municipality lies in combining data with transformative technologies like AI. This allows us to make much more informed decisions—all while keeping a peace of mind thanks to our zero-trust approach and the security that Azure comes with.”

Arild Ovesen, Head of IT, Kristiansund Kommune

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“The apps we started with were monolithic, so they didn’t scale well. Azure App Service let us break down those apps into components that could be scaled out separately.”

Alex Wilhelmsen: Digital Architect, Jotun

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“Instead of doing six-week releases, we now do weekly releases. And the build times now take roughly 10 to 15 minutes, compared to what used to be a couple of hours.”

Anton Vishnyakov: Senior Engineer and Manager for Platform Engineering, Coles