What is Azure App Service?

Cloud Computing
#1

Azure App Service is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for experienced developers that provides a diverse set of capabilities for web, mobile, and integration situations. Mobile apps in Azure App Service provide Enterprise Developers and System Integrators with a very customizable, universally accessible mobile application development platform that provides a comprehensive range of capabilities to mobile engineers.

#2

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Microsoft lists over 600 Azure services, of which some are:

  1. Computer services
  2. Mobile services
  3. Storage services
  4. Data management