Azure App Service, a great platform - yet a bit complex interface
November 27, 2019
Azure App Service, a great platform - yet a bit complex interface

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Azure App Service
During my time at the company, Azure App Service was used to deploy ASP NET Core applications. It was used throughout the whole organization and we had multiple applications deployed there. It was pretty useful since we could deploy our applications directly from Visual studio, never leaving our code editor environment. We could modify the settings from the Azure portal or with the Azure command-line interface.
Pros
- Simple app deployment from Visual Studio.
- Easy interfaces: Azure CLI and Azure Portal.
- No server maintenance. We could scale easily by just modifying some settings in the portal.
Cons
- Abstraction of computing resources like Heroku does with dynos.
- Azure Portal overall is pretty bloated and that affects managing Azure App Service applications.
- Reduced the deployment time of ASP .NET applications in the company.
- Gave us an alternative to quickly deploy our applications without granting access to the version control system to a third platform.
Azure App Service will give you a very solid and strong platform to deploy your applications. It gives you great interfaces to manage those applications either through a Web Portal or the Azure command-line interface. However, I consider Azure overall to be very complex and hard for newcomers to use it right away. I would consider Heroku first due to its extremely simple interface and abstraction of computing units.
Do you think Azure App Service delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Azure App Service's feature set?
Yes
Did Azure App Service live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Azure App Service go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Azure App Service again?
Yes
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