What is Azure App Service?

• A new container for Azure Services
• Contains two existing services
  • Azure Web App (Azure Web Sites)
  • Azure Mobile App (Azure Mobile Services)
• Two new services
  • Azure API App 
  • Azure Logic App

Azure Logic Apps

What is an App Service Plan?

• Used to be called web hosting plan
• Your plan determines what you pay
• Can be upgrade/downgrade when needed
• Using the free plan can be limiting 

What is a ressource group

• A container for Azure artefacts
• Only visible in the new portal (gets created behind your back in the old portal)
• Use it to group services together
• Default max 500 per subscription 

Resource group

App Service Plan X (West Europe)

App Service Plan Y (North Europe)

Web App 3

Web API App

Web App 1

Web App 2

Ressource groups limitations

• An App Service Plan can only be associated one ressource group
• An App Service can only be associated with one App Service Plan at any given time
• An App Service can be moved between App Service Plans (within the same ressource group and region)