Azure App Services vs Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft Azure provides a lot of options to deploy your applications to Cloud. In this article we will discuss about two of the hosting options provided by Azure: Azure App Services Azure Cloud Services Both of the options supports web applications and background service type applications. We will discuss about both of the options and then sum up with comparison between two. Azure App Services (or just Web Apps) Azure app service is a PAAS offering from Microsoft to host your web applications in fully managed set of VM's in a dedicated or Shared mode. There are 4 types of App services:- Web App - used for hosting websites and web applications (previously Azure Websites) API App - used for hosting REST APIs Logic App – used to build automated scalable workflows that integrate apps and data across cloud services and on-premises systems. Mobile Backends - used for hosting mobile app back ends (previously delivered by Azure Mobile services) Azure C...