Azure App Service is one of Microsoft Azure's Platform as a service (PaaS) offerings. It is used to run your applications on Azure in a fully managed service environment.

This offering provides the following services:

• Web Apps: Used to host your web apps that need to scale with your business
• API Apps: Used to easily build and consume APIs on the cloud
• Mobile Apps: Used to build mobile apps for any device
• Logic apps: Used to automate business processes across Software as a service (SaaS) and on-premises systems
• Function apps: Used to integrate systems, work with IoT, process data, and even build simple APIs and microservices.

In this chapter, we will be focusing on Azure Web Apps specifically.