Mastering Azure Serverless Computing

Choosing between consumption plans and traditional ones

Azure Functions and Azure API Management are two examples of Azure services that can be run in a pure serverless way (using the consumption plan) or in a traditional PaaS way (using traditional plans).

With consumption plans, you don't pay for dedicated or provisioned resources, but you use resources from a pool managed by Azure, and you only pay for the number of times you use the resources, or for other metrics (for example, in Azure Functions, you also pay for the memory allocated by every function app over time). If you don't use a resource, you won't pay anything.

With traditional plans, you have dedicated resources (for example, virtual machines) that run your workloads, and you ...