Item: Azure App Service
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure App Service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Azure App Service to modernize customer's .NET applications into a modern Platform As A Service (PaaS) and cloud-native application architecture platform. App Service allows me to provide a fully-managed environment and allow the customer to offload their administrative overhead for application infrastructure, while at the same time providing them with infrastructure monitoring, backup, scalability and service redundancy.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD)
Scalability (scaling-up and scaling-out)
Redundancy
Performance
Security

Cons

Automatic update and management of managed TLS certificates
Better integration with Content Delivery Networks
Built-in security mechanisms

Return on Investment

By deploying Azure App Service, customers have achieved a TCO reducation of approximately 30% on average
By deploying Azure App Service, customers have achieved a ROI reducation of approximately 20% on average
By deploying Azure App Service, developer teams' overhead has significantly decreased by 40%, so developers can focused on their apps' business logic rather than infrastructure management.

Usability

I enjoy the fact that Azure App Service can be managed by the Azure portal and a fully graphical user interface, as well as from two different flavors of command-line interface, i.e. Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. By utilizing the Azure Cloud Shell, we are able to switch between Azure Bash (CLI) and Powershell at any given moment and manage the Azure App Service settings from devices of any form-factor (Web based management).

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Azure Front Door, Azure Arc, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Load Balancer, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Vision, Azure AI Studio, Azure AI Language, Azure AI Speech, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Azure API Management, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Firewall, Azure Backup, Microsoft Entra ID

Likelihood to Recommend

The best-suited usage scenario for Azure App Service is for modernizing existing .NET apps and thus re-designing them to fit the requirements but also make the most out of the benefits of a truly PaaS service. Therefore, any apps that must be quickly moved to the Azure cloud by the lift and shift method, i.e. without significant refactoring, are not good candidates for Azure App Service but for IaaS (Azure VMs).

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