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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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The most popular service in Microsoft Azure, which allows you to host web applications, is called Azure App Service. It consists of two main components:
The fact that there are two separate elements (i.e., there’s no 1:1 relation between compute and code) gives you flexibility when planning your app capacity. It also means that you can have a single computer component that links to several web applications with their own configuration. You can think about such a setup as something that was very often done when hosting applications on-premises – you had a single web server, which ran 10s of different web services. The only difference here between cloud and on-premises is the placement of a physical server – when using Microsoft Azure, it’s installed in the selected cloud region, while you get access to a subset...