When you create an App Service, such as a Web App for example, you will be asked to specify the App Service plan.
An App Service plan is like the hardware host on which you run your VMs. It contains the resources that are shared among the App Service. As a result, we can look at App Service as VMs running on the host, which is the App Service plan.
The App Service plan also defines many settings for the App Service that will be built on it, such as the region, number of instances, whether it will be able to scale out/in or not, and much more, which will be covered later on.
Azure offers different plans to fulfill different customers' needs, such as the following:
- Shared infrastructure plans:
- Free plan: This is the entry level plan, and as its name implies, it's available for free. It's meant for dev/test scenarios, or if you wish to deploy a...