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Microsoft Azure App Service

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4.3

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft Azure App Service

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Azure App Service?

Microsoft Azure App Service is a software that enables the creation, hosting, and scaling of web applications, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends on a cloud platform. It provides support for multiple programming languages and frameworks, including .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python. The software integrates with development tools and manages application deployment, offers integrated authentication, and enables automated scaling according to demand. Users can utilize continuous integration and deployment capabilities, monitor application performance, and maintain security through built-in compliance features. Azure App Service addresses the business problem of managing infrastructure by allowing organizations to focus on building and operating applications while automating resource management and maintenance tasks.

Microsoft Azure App Service Pricing

Microsoft Azure App Service software utilizes a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the selected hosting plan, instance size, and number of instances required. The software offers both free and paid tiers, with charges applying for compute, storage, and network resources consumed. Additional features such as autoscaling, custom domains, and SSL certificates may incur separate fees depending on the chosen configuration.

Overall experience with Microsoft Azure App Service

CTO
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Good solution for everyday cloud deployment needs”

4.0
May 27, 2021
Not too many configuration options, but this is indeed good for standardized workloads. Everything included which is needed to get a production ready, auto scaling environment.
Systems Engineer
1B - 3B USD, Media
CRITICAL

“Ease of implementation, but reliability has been an issue.”

2.0
Dec 18, 2018
Azure App Services has helped our organization migrate our applications and services to the cloud. The reliability of the ASE has been less than desired. On multiple occasions front-end workers have failed, making our applications unavailable. We have also experienced issues with the scale-out plan orchestration, where scale-out gets stuck. We built out secondary ASEs for business critical services to avoid the ASE being a single point of failure.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Microsoft Azure App Service Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(68 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
34%
4 Star
57%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
3%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.1

Delivery & Execution

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.1

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • CTO
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Good solution for everyday cloud deployment needs

    4.0
    May 27, 2021
    Not too many configuration options, but this is indeed good for standardized workloads. Everything included which is needed to get a production ready, auto scaling environment.
  • Manager-Plant Systems
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Good experience. Has worked well

    5.0
    Feb 5, 2020
    It works well. WE have had good experience deploying workloads to the cloud. Service offers many value added features that we did not have in our on premise solution.
  • Executive
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Very useful solution!!

    4.0
    Feb 6, 2020
    Very smart solution which reduce the overall time for the deployed project work. This program is also possible to scale as per the user numbers. User can see everything just after login.
  • Network Operations Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Azure-Managing Operations, Analytics, alerting was easier.

    5.0
    Feb 6, 2020
    Using the MS Azure environment it makes me easier to manage operations, log Analytics, alerting, dashboards much catchy.
  • Special Event Coordinator
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Pоwеrful аррlісаtіоn mоnіtоrіng

    4.0
    Jun 16, 2019
    Wе usе thіs tооl tо mоnіtоr lіvе реrfоrmаnсе іssuеs wіth оur wеb аррlісаtіоns, аnd аlsо fоr rооt саusе аnаlysіs оf dеереr іssuеs wіth thе соdе bаsе оr thіrd раrty tіе іns tо thе аррlісаtіоn.
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Reviewer Insights for: Microsoft Azure App Service
Performance of Microsoft Azure App Service Across Market Features

Microsoft Azure App Service Likes & Dislikes

Like

Ease of use, monitoring integration, auto scaling

Like

Easy to implement and use

Like

Spent some time planning for integrations and security. It works well. Helps manage workloads in a cost effective way. Simplifies application deployments. Add agility as we can move must faster than before.

Dislike

Little configuration options, Protobuf support missing, cumbersome startup tracing

Dislike

Not able to perform health checks to target an instance. Sometimes an instance fails but is not taken out of the pool.

Dislike

Took some time to work through the subscription.