Azure App Service vs. Vercel

Azure App Service is well suited in our case :

• Our website is developed by our tech partner in a full Microsoft Azure cloud based environment.
• We gave them specific access rights and the CI / CD integration helped a lot for updates and improvements deployment.
• Most of the infra issues we had with our website weren't coming from App Service

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As a result, there are no specific drawbacks, but if it supports Python applications, one can deploy even dynamic applications on Vercel without having to look for another hosting platform. I've used it to host one of my documentation websites. I edited and deployed the documentation using the pre-built template. It was very quick because all I had to do was enter the data; no coding was required.

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• Super quick & easy to deploy new apps in visual studio
• Easy scaling to help reduce costs during off-hours
• The powerful Azure ecosystem offers a lot of functionality that ties in well with Azure App Service

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• Deploy Site
• Integrate Giithub
• Functions to use at scale and free

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• Abstraction of computing resources like Heroku does with dynos.
• Azure Portal overall is pretty bloated and that affects managing Azure App Service applications.

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• Interface Revamp
• Cost reduction

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I enjoy the fact that Azure App Service can be managed by the Azure portal and a fully graphical user interface, as well as from two different flavors of command-line interface, i.e. Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. By utilizing the Azure Cloud Shell, we are able to switch between Azure Bash (CLI) and Powershell at any given moment and manage the Azure App Service settings from devices of any form-factor (Web based management).

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Vercel's good usability and developer experience make me happy to visit their website when I need to configure my deployments. It's very easy to navigate, configure, and manage my projects, and the developer experience is so seamless that I don't have to think much when I push changes to git.

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We had an issue where we deployed too large of a resource and didn't notice until the bill came through. They were very understanding and saw we weren't utilizing the resources so they issued a generous refund in about 4 hours. Very fast, friendly, and understanding support reps from my experience.

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In terms of deploying your apps, Azure App Service provides a solid foundation. You may use either the Azure command-line interface or the Web Portal to administer these apps. As a whole, I find You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service to be a really difficult platform for novices to get their feet wet. First and foremost, I'd look at Heroku's user interface and the way it abstracts compute units.

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Vercel beats Heroku and DigitalOcean by a mile with pricing. Since Vercel uses serverless infrastructure, we don't pay for servers that don't get used, which is great for smaller platforms. Vercel Support is also very quick to respond, unlike DigitalOcean who took a while to get back to me after they didn't honor platform credits they sent me.

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• Download time is reduced because of auto scaling feature.
• Insight tool helps in finding issues quickly.
• CI/CD has helped in automation.

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• Reduced amount of staff time required to deploy applications and websites
• Improved staging environments by automatically deploying changes on pull requests
• Allowed for collaboration from members of the open source community with strong git integrations

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