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App Service overview

Azure App Service is a platform that lets you run web applications, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. Think of it as a powerful web hosting service that takes care of all the heavy lifting for you, so can focus on creating great applications.

App Serivce supports a variety of web stacks: .NET, Java (in Java SE, Tomcat, and JBoss flavors), Node.js, Python, and PHP, and can run them on both Windows and Linux. Or, if your app is containerized, you can just deploy it as a custom container.

Why Use Azure App Service?

Whether you're a student, a small business, a startup, or an enterprise, App Service offers a wide range of features tailored to meet your needs.

Students

  • Free access: In addition to the widely-available free tier, students can take advantage of the Azure for Students Starter program.
  • IDE support: Purpose-built deployment tools are available for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, and Eclipse.
  • Easy to use: Run your apps without needing experience in infrastructure management.
  • Learning Resources: Plenty of tutorials and guides to help you get started.

Small businesses and startups

  • Brand security: Protect your brand and your customers quickly with an App Service domain and a free managed certificate. Or, bring your domain and certificate to App Service.
  • Cost-effective: Pay only for the resources you use, and scale up or out with your business.
  • Command-line friendly: Deploy using command line tools you already use, such as Maven, Gradle, Azure Developer CLI, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell.
  • Scalability: Automatically scale your applications based on demand.
  • Global reach: Deploy your apps in data centers around the world.
  • Application templates: Choose from an extensive list of application templates in the Azure Marketplace, such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
  • Social sign-in support: Turn-key social sign-in with Google, Facebook, X, and Microsoft accounts.

Enterprises

For information about which Azure compute services best fit your scenario, see Choose an Azure compute service.

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