December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
In Azure, you only pay for resources you're using, and since servers are allocated dynamically, you're not paying for functions that you're not using. Even when your functions are executing, it's quite cheap. With an App Service plan, you allocate a server that is always up and running; depending on your tier (let's say, basic, normal, and enterprise) you're paying about €40 – €1,000 a month, even when your application does absolutely nothing. Your functions can run on an App Service plan (which is great when you already have one), but it's recommended to create a consumption plan.
With a consumption plan, you pay per use. The actual costs are a bit difficult to calculate since it's a mix of per-second resource consumption ...