Selecting the right Microsoft Azure technology

So far, we have seen that there is more than just a technical decision to be made and that there is always a business and financial component to it. Let’s take a look at a new use case.

You work for a company that provides an e-commerce solution. Customers come to you when they need anything in the form of a web shop. Among other features, the e-commerce solution allows the end user to order items, perform payments, view their order history, and review items they have purchased previously. The solution is single-tenant, which means a separate instance or a combination of resources is deployed for each customer. Technically, the solution is monolithic and runs on Internet Information Services (IIS) on virtual machines (VMs). The current runtime is .NET Framework 4.8. Migrating to a more modern runtime is on the roadmap but is currently not a top priority.

Recently, customers have been asking for a connection between the e...