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Implementing Azure App Service Web Apps

Now it’s time to build on some of the fundamentals you have covered in the previous chapter, focusing on one of Azure’s most popular Platform as a service (PaaS) services, Azure App Service. Many developers that traditionally had web apps hosted on an Internet Information Services (IIS) server (even if it was a cloud-based VM) are moving their applications to be hosted on App Service, which brings even more benefits to this scenario than IaaS.

It’s important to understand that Azure App Service is more than just for hosting web apps, such as hosting web APIs, so we’ll start with an overview of App Service as a whole, before turning our focus to web apps specifically.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll ...

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