Azure App Service and Functions

- [Narrator] Virtual machines are not the only option … in Azure for managing your workloads. … If you don't want to be responsible … for operating system updates, backups, networking, … load balance servers, ensuring availability, … and those infrastructure items, … have a look at Azure App Services. … Azure App Services, or sometimes called web apps, … are a Platform as a Service offering from Azure. … Instead of worrying about managing and maintaining … the server yourself, you package your application … into a zip file and deploy it to Azure. … Microsoft takes care of the server … and runs your code in the cloud for you. … App Services have several really cool features … that are not provided natively at the VM level. … They have a built-in load balancer, … so if you need to have two or three or more instances … of your application running at the same time, … they take care of balancing traffic between the instances. … They'll deploy the code to each new instance, … so manual or automatic scaling is super easy. …