Chapter 2. What Is an Azure App Service?

This chapter defines the details and capabilities of an Azure App Service. The chapter then explores the basics of the four building blocks of an App Service: the web app, mobile app, API app, and logic apps.

We will then introduce our sample solution for a fictional company named Sunny Electrical Manufacturing.

In this chapter you learn the following topics:

• What is an Azure App Service?
• Why you should consider developing applications using App Service
• What are Azure Resource Groups and how should we use them?
• What is an App Service Plan?
• An introduction to our hypothetical company