What is Azure App Service ?

Azure App Service is a PaaS offering of Microsoft Azure to build and host applications without worrying about infrastructure management irrespective of the language they were written in. There are some parts that you would have to manage in a PaaS model. One of them being the scaling aspect of your application. Azure app service allows you to scale your application both horizontally and vertically.

Scaling in Azure App Service

In this Video, we are going to discuss various ways to scale our apps by leveraging the scaling capabilities of Azure app service. First, we look at the steps to manually scale our application by exploring the scale-up option in Azure app service and later look at ways to scale out to handle the surge in traffic for our web applications

Scaling your app by increasing/decreasing the capability of the resource, in terms of going to higher/lower tier by opting for more/less cores, RAM, and Storage depending on your requirement, this is known as Vertical Scaling.

Scaling your app by increasing/decreasing the number of instances of your server with the same cores, RAM and storage to handle the traffic depending on your requirement, this is known as Horizontal Scaling.