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Azure Container Apps

Run modern apps and agents using serverless containers.
Quickly build and deploy apps at serverless scale.
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OVERVIEW

Fully managed serverless container platform

  • Inference custom models that scale to zero with pay-per-second billing with serverless GPUs. Execute untrusted code, such as code provided by your application, code generated by a large language model (LLM) and agents, in a secure sandbox with dynamic sessions. Build and deploy agents with your preferred framework.
  • Scale dynamically to match any workload. Enable cost-efficiency for greenfield and brownfield apps with support for scale-to-zero.
  • Deploy apps from code or containers without requiring container knowledge or infrastructure management. Design resilient, portable microservices and build heterogeneous modern apps with unified centralized networking, observability, dynamic scaling, and configuration.
  • Focus on your apps while eliminating the need to manage underlying infrastructure with an enterprise-grade serverless compute platform. Improve your security posture with built-in support for managed identities, network isolation, tailored container security, and more, all backed by a 99.95% SLA.
FEATURES AND USE CASES

Simplify app development

Scale apps on demand

Improve production velocity and lower management costs on a scalable, portable platform with flexible hosting options.

Open-source foundation and add-ons

Get greater extensibility, full app lifecycle management, and built-in support for Distributed Apps Runtime (Dapr) and Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA).

Advanced networking

Build apps using a flexible network architecture with virtual network support and fine-grained ingress and egress controls.

Enhanced security and governance

Monitor container governance at scale using advanced identity and access management.

Deploy anywhere

Host apps on your infrastructure of choice from the cloud to the edge with Azure Arc.
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Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

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Security

Embedded security and compliance

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Pricing

Flexible pricing options to fit your needs

  • Get started with the free tier: Your first 180,000 vCPU per second, 360,000 GiB/s, and 2 million requests each month are free.
  • Consumption plan: Pay for what you use on a per-second basis, beyond the free allocation.
  • Dedicated plan: Benefit from a single tenancy guarantee, access to specialized hardware, and predictable pricing.
  • Savings plan: Save money by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for one or three years.
  • Flexible options: Deploy to serverless GPUs for easy AI model inferencing with built-in data governance.
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Microsoft Foundry

Design, customize, and manage AI apps and agents at scale.
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Azure Functions

Run event-driven serverless code with an end-to-end development experience.
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Azure Container Registry

Build, store, secure, scan, replicate, and manage container images and artifacts.
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GitHub

Accelerate development with the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform.
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Databases on Azure

Build AI-ready apps with intelligent cloud databases.
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Messaging services on Azure

Connect your modern applications—written in different languages and hosted anywhere—with a comprehensive set of messaging services on Azure.
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Azure Cache for Redis

Accelerate apps with high-throughput, low-latency data caching.
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LEARNING JOURNEY

Build serverless apps and agents

Combine AI, cloud-scale data, and cloud-native app development to create unique digital experiences.
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RESOURCES

How to get started with Azure Container Apps

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Tutorial

Serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps

Learn how to generate images using serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps.
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DeepSeek on Azure Container Apps

Learn how to quickly adapt applications to the latest models like DeepSeek-R1.
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Quickstart

Deploy your first container app

Create and deploy your first container app using the “az containerapp up” command.
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Deploy cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps

Learn how to build, deploy, scale, and manage cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps.
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Launch your first Java application in Azure Container Apps

Learn how to create and deploy a sample Java application directly from a Java Archive (JAR) file or web application archive (WAR) file.
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Explore learning paths

Dive into Azure Container Apps concepts with hands-on learning opportunities.
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Azure Container Apps is a serverless platform that allows you to maintain less infrastructure and save costs while running containerized applications. Instead of worrying about server configuration, container orchestration, and deployment details, Azure Container Apps provides all the up-to-date server resources required to keep your applications stable and secure.
  • Common uses of Azure Container Apps include:
    • Deploying API endpoints
    • Hosting background processing jobs
    • Handling event-driven processing
    • Running microservices
  • Yes, scale-to-zero is the default configuration. When the minimum instances setting is zero, you pay only when your app is active in response to events and/or requests.
  • Yes. Your first 180,000 vCPU per second, 360,000 GiB/s, and 2 million requests each month are free. Beyond that, you pay for what you use based on the number of vCPU per second and Gbps your applications consume.
  • Active usage occurs while your container is starting or while there is at least one request being processed by the application. By default, applications scale to zero. You can also configure Azure Container Apps with a minimum number of instances to always run in idle mode. Idle usage is charged at a reduced rate when the application isn't processing any requests.
  • Azure Functions provides integrated support for developing, deploying, and managing containerized function apps on Azure Container Apps.
  • Serverless GPUs enable you to seamlessly run your AI workloads on-demand with automatic scaling, optimized cold start, pay-per-second billing. It has built-in data governance with scale-to-zero when not in use, and reduced operational overhead to support easy real-time custom model inferencing and other GPU related tasks. Common scenarios for serverless GPUs include real-time and batch inferencing, compute intensive machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), and data analytics.
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    Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, By Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Wataru Katsurashima, Michael Warrilow, Lucas Albuquerque, Stephanie Bauman, 6 August 2025.

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