Scaling App Service Apps

In Chapter 1, Azure and Cloud Fundamentals, you saw that the cloud offers elasticity so that it can scale and use as much capacity as you need when you need it. The chapter specifically touched on scaling up (that is, vertical scaling) and scaling out (that is, horizontal scaling). In Azure, scaling is managed using a set of rules such as CPU usage thresholds, memory demands, and queue lengths. This is managed in the portal, as shown in the following exercise.