Options for hosting applications

Understanding Microsoft Azure Architecture and Services

Florin Angelescu

Azure Architect

Modern applications

• Online versions of applications
  • Web
  • Mobile
  • Tablet

Migrate from on-premises

• Move website and legacy applications from on-premises to virtual machines
• First step in having critical software in a secure and highly available cloud environment

Migrate to modern services

• Refactor existing applications to use native Azure services
  • Container services
  • App services

Azure app service

• Fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps
• Supports multiple programming languages
• Provides automatic scaling
• Offers web apps, API apps, web jobs and mobile apps

Web apps

• Allow to build, host, and scale web applications in the cloud
• Provide automatic scaling, continuous integration and deployment
• Include support for multiple programming languages

Web apps use cases

• Suited for hosting a variety of websites (simple and complex)
• Capability to migrate traditional websites to web apps

What is an API?

• Application Programming Interface
• Allows different software applications to communicate with each other
• Using standardized instructions

API apps

• Dedicated environment for the creation of APIs
• Expose application functionality for consumption by other services

Web jobs

• Serve as background tasks or scripts
• Perform a variety of automated functions
• Execute code in the background

Mobile apps

• Back-end services for mobile applications
• Provides authentication, offline data sync, push notifications
• Ability to connect to on-premises systems

App service advantages

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Architecture and Services