Chapter 2. What Is an Azure App Service?

 

Change is the essential process of all existence.

 
 --Mr. Spock, Star Trek

This chapter defines the details and capabilities of an Azure App Service. The chapter then explores the basics of the four building blocks of an App Service: the web app, mobile app, API app, and logic apps.

We will then introduce our sample solution for a fictional company named Sunny Electrical Manufacturing.

In this chapter you learn the following topics:

  • What is an Azure App Service?
  • Why you should consider developing applications using App Service
  • What are Azure Resource Groups and how should we use them?
  • What is an App Service Plan?
  • An introduction to our hypothetical company

What is an Azure App Service?

An Azure App Service is a ...

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