Azure Web

Microsoft Azure offers a variety of services to help build, deploy, and scale web applications in the cloud quickly and efficiently. This includes Azure Web Apps, API Management, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Azure SignalR Service, Azure Maps, Static Web Apps, Azure Container Apps, and more!

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Feb 15, 2025 16 min read

Azure Functions Cost Considerations and Optimization

Azure Functions is a powerful serverless compute service that enables organizations to build event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure management. While its scalability and flexibility make…

May 21, 2020 2 min read

Host Static Web Apps in Azure App Service

Modern web applications are shifting more towards a static html/css architecture that leverages RESTful APIs as the backend data services. Previously, in order to host…

Sep 11, 2019 3 min read

Buy Domain Names with Azure App Service Domain

There’s a feature for purchasing Internet Domain Names within Microsoft Azure that’s not very widely known. With the Azure App Service Domain feature, you can…

Mar 31, 2017 1 min read

Create Azure Web App in the Azure Portal

Here’s a short video introduction to creating an Azure Web App within the Azure Portal. It also shows how to select the pricing tier to…

Mar 8, 2017 7 min read

Azure Functions vs Web Jobs: How to choose?

There are a few choices when it comes to implementing custom background processing tasks. The main options in the Microsoft Azure cloud are to use…

Nov 30, 2016 4 min read

Static Website Hosting in Azure Storage

Traditional shared hosting providers generally cost anywhere between $8 – $10 USD per month. The reason is you need to reserve some CPU and Memory…

Oct 19, 2016 7 min read

Hosting Azure Web App on Linux

Since the introduction of Azure App Service and Azure Web Apps in early 2015, as well as the Azure Websites feature even earlier, the only…

Aug 25, 2016 1 min read

Free Website Hosting in Microsoft Azure

There are many excellent reasons to use Microsoft Azure to host applications and enterprise systems. There’s even plenty of criticisms on it being expensive to…

Jun 3, 2016 2 min read

Azure Marketplace: BlogEngine.NET

BlogEngine.NET is an Open Source, ASP.NET blogging engine. It can easily be hosted on any Windows Server running IIS. In addition to this, BlogEngine.NET is…

Feb 2, 2016 1 min read

Free eBook: Azure Web Apps for Developers

The “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers” book written by Rick Rainey has been made available as a Free eBook on the Microsoft Virtual Academy…

Jun 30, 2015 2 min read

Did you know Java apps run on Azure too?

Did you know Java applications can be hosted on Microsoft Azure too? Microsoft Azure is about much more than just Windows and Microsoft’s developer tools. Just…

Jun 24, 2015 1 min read

Did you know Ruby apps run on Azure too?

Did you know Ruby applications can be hosted on Microsoft Azure too? Microsoft Azure is about much more than just Windows and Microsoft’s developer tools. Just…