Azure App Service
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs globally with a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS).
Innovate with AI and open-source technology without the need to manage cloud infrastructure.
OVERVIEW
Create AI-ready web apps in the cloud
- Quickly develop and run intelligent web apps in the cloud with fully managed platform tools, databases, and systems.
- Protect your apps with built-in security features and compliance certifications.
- Let developers focus on developing great software without worrying about hardware using pre-coded application components.
- Pay only for the compute you use, with flexible plans ranging from free tier to large shared and dedicated options.
- Take advantage of AI-assisted tooling, expert guidance, and managed services from Azure to help assess, migrate, and optimize your applications for the cloud with minimal management overhead.
FEATURES
Migrate and modernize on your own terms
Develop in your preferred languages
Get first-class support for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Java, Tomcat, JBoss EAP, Node.js, PHP, and Python in containers or running on both Windows and Linux.
Automate deployment and scaling
Reduce time and effort, save costs, and enable reliable and efficient operation with automatic workload management.
Incorporate Zero Trust principles
Verify every access request with extensible built-in authentication and authorization (“easy auth”) capabilities.
Gain high availability and resiliency
Ensure that apps remain available during unexpected outages with a 99.99% uptime service-level agreement (SLA).
Securely run apps with single-tenant App Service Environments
Use isolated, high-scale hosting to run mission-critical applications with enhanced security, network isolation, and full control over app resources.
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Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Take advantage of flexible pricing plans
- Manage cloud spending with the Azure savings plan for compute and reserved instances.
- Explore pricing plans for every budget and business need, from low-cost Premium plans to large-scale isolated plans for your most demanding workloads.
- Easily calculate the cost of running your web apps with the Azure pricing calculator.
- Expand developer access with free tiers and dev/test discounts.
GUIDANCE AND TOOLS
Accelerate success with free technical guidance, resources, and tools
Announcing Azure App Service Premium version 4
Explore Azure App Service's Premium v4 plan for better cost-performance, higher app capacity, and enterprise-grade performance of web apps.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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RESOURCES
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FAQ
- Azure App Service provides a framework for developing and running apps in the cloud. PaaS providers host and maintain the platform's servers, networks, storage, and other computing resources. Developers use the platform to build apps without having to manage backups, security solutions, upgrades, or other administrative tasks. App Service also includes tools, services, and systems that support the web application lifecycle.
- You can run web and API apps in Azure App Service at scale while working seamlessly with other first- or third-party solutions to meet the requirements of the app solution you envision.
- Azure App Service is available in most Azure regions.
- Azure App Service pricing is based on plan tiers with varying features and capabilities. For more details, see pricing.
- We guarantee that apps running via a customer subscription will be available 99.99% of the time. Get details.
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- Shared Compute: Includes Free and Shared tiers, where apps run on shared Azure VMs with limited resources. Ideal for development and testing, but cannot scale out.
- Dedicated Compute: Covers Basic, Standard, Premium, PremiumV2, and PremiumV3 tiers. Apps run on dedicated VMs, with scale-out options increasing at higher tiers.
- Isolated Compute: The IsolatedV2 tier offers dedicated VMs within private virtual networks, ensuring both compute and network isolation with maximum scalability.
- Azure App Service provides a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications, APIs, and mobile backends. With global reach and compliance with industry standards, Azure App Service offloads the cloud infrastructure management from your developers, so they can focus on innovation and creating enterprise-grade applications.
It supports various programming languages and frameworks, including .NET, Java, Python, and Node.js. Key benefits include automatic scaling, high availability, integrated authentication, and CI/CD capabilities for streamlined deployments. Additionally, it offers built-in monitoring, security features, custom domains, and SSL certificates. Developers can leverage its integration with Azure services like Azure SQL Database and Azure DevOps, while ensuring robust performance and high scalability. - Azure App Service is PaaS. Learn more.
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- [1]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, 4 August 2025.
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