Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535

Consumption App Service plan

For Azure Functions, Microsoft introduced a new hosting plan where you share a pool of instances with functions from other customers. This plan is called the Consumption plan. This plan is more cost effective then the other available App Service plans because it automatically scales down and up, depending on the workload. When your function isn't running, you don't have to pay anything and when the function is running, instances are added dynamically and removed based on the number of incoming events. Functions hosted on the Consumption plan can run for a maximum of 10 minutes (the default timeout is 5 minutes, but this can be increased to 10 minutes). The Azure Function code and the binding configurations are ...