Azure App Service vs. Azure SQL Managed Instance
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Azure App Service | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby. | $9.49 per month |
Azure SQL Managed Instance | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service. | N/A |
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| Additional Details | Free and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.9 | 6.0 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |