Great product, easy to use, careful use of autoscaling
Rating: 8 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Azure Web Apps for our Front End and some big data processing needs: for the monolith and some microservices. Also we host APIs over them. Web Apps offer an easy to use platform for creating and modifying our code in a seamless way across different stages of our data ingestion-processing-and offering for the customers.
Pros
- Extremely easy to deploy and update from Visual Studio
- It integrates seamlessly with other Azure PaaS resources
- It has an in-depth integration with AppInsights, so you can understand errors and their root cause easily.
- Easy to create and delete, what is not the same case in a IaaS resource
- It escalates based on CPU workload and some other resource variables.
- Configuration changes are almost immediate
- Offers an excellent abstraction from hardware backend of the platform
- That's updated very often, saving time and the risk of a self-performed update over a IaaS
- That's really easy to develop for Web Apps
- It supports Function Apps and Web Apps into the same "cost black box"
Cons
- Irrationally expensive
- High latency and poor response times in heavy workloads
- Some updates lead to failures and crashes of hosted apps
- Tech support starts defending Microsoft rather than helping you to get rid of a production failure
- That's easy to have a peak cost with automatic resources escalation.
- Lacks of spent money limits for escalation
- Unnecessary deprecation of runtimes that makes the platform less interesting for complex applications that can't be updated periodically
- Every single minor feature that's an spending. For example, a basic firewall.
Likelihood to Recommend
For a mid size front end, with a good budget to pay for resources escalation. Also for test environments and debug of Web Apps. It hosts great Function Apps, together with Web Apps. Spending in bundled in firewall, that's a good platform for e-payments and complies with all http / web standards, so you wont have surprises with Chrome and Chromium.
It comes with a good IP filter, that you would use starting in S1 (basic production) plan, but if you want a true firewall with DoS protection, it comes as an "additional". Both perform well.
Production plans have built-in backup and advanced networking support, also if spend limits are not so low, that's great to integrate your website in a private network.
It comes with a good IP filter, that you would use starting in S1 (basic production) plan, but if you want a true firewall with DoS protection, it comes as an "additional". Both perform well.
Production plans have built-in backup and advanced networking support, also if spend limits are not so low, that's great to integrate your website in a private network.
Vetted Review
4 years of experience