Great product, easy to use, careful use of autoscaling
Updated May 01, 2024
Great product, easy to use, careful use of autoscaling
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Azure App Service
We use Azure Web Apps for our Front End and some big data processing needs: for the monolith and some microservices. Also we host APIs over them. Web Apps offer an easy to use platform for creating and modifying our code in a seamless way across different stages of our data ingestion-processing-and offering for the customers.
- Extremely easy to deploy and update from Visual Studio
- It integrates seamlessly with other Azure PaaS resources
- It has an in-depth integration with AppInsights, so you can understand errors and their root cause easily.
- Easy to create and delete, what is not the same case in a IaaS resource
- It escalates based on CPU workload and some other resource variables.
- Configuration changes are almost immediate
- Offers an excellent abstraction from hardware backend of the platform
- That's updated very often, saving time and the risk of a self-performed update over a IaaS
- That's really easy to develop for Web Apps
- It supports Function Apps and Web Apps into the same "cost black box"
- Irrationally expensive
- High latency and poor response times in heavy workloads
- Some updates lead to failures and crashes of hosted apps
- Tech support starts defending Microsoft rather than helping you to get rid of a production failure
- That's easy to have a peak cost with automatic resources escalation.
- Lacks of spent money limits for escalation
- Unnecessary deprecation of runtimes that makes the platform less interesting for complex applications that can't be updated periodically
- Every single minor feature that's an spending. For example, a basic firewall.
- When workload was medium-low and medium-high it escalated and performed in a very good way. We saved a lot of time and a specialized role for managing it. Also, compared to an IaaS solution, was reasonably expensive.
- Many platform issues on 2020 caused problems with our business. Downtime was reimbursed, but some customers were lost and churn grew.
- Using AppServices and Web Apps as a Big Data processing platform was not a good idea, specially when data volumes grew and every escalation in resources was 2x of the previous stage cost.
AppServices that's easier to manage than its competitors, specially if you have everything in Azure. But also that's the most expensive service when you escalate or start using it for massive data processing. It would be an excellent containers platform if were easier to deal with its costs.
Regarding Apache and AKS, also I must mention the required level of manual maintenance that's a key point. If you wont have internally or via consulting a specialized role, AppServices that's the best choice.
Regarding Apache and AKS, also I must mention the required level of manual maintenance that's a key point. If you wont have internally or via consulting a specialized role, AppServices that's the best choice.
Do you think Azure App Service delivers good value for the price?
No
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