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Learn Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Learn Microsoft Azure Build, manage, and scale cloud applications using the Azure ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617580
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Waly Mohamed Waly
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Microsoft Azure 101 2. Understanding Azure Storage FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Familiar with Azure Virtual Networks 4. Understanding Azure Virtual Machines 5. Azure Web Apps Basics 6. Managing Azure Web Apps 7. Basics of Azure SQL Database 8. Managing Azure SQL Database 9. Understanding Azure Active Directory 10. Monitoring and Automating Azure Services Using OMS 11. Data Protection and Business Continuity Using OMS 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

App Service plans

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...
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