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Key Points Which We Should to Know for Better Understanding the App Service Plan

Maciej
6 min readNov 16, 2020

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Introduction

Correct understanding of the App Service Plan is essential to the correct use of App Service in production. However, we often see cases where detailed behavior is not understood or causes trouble, probably because there are many rough explanations that App Service Plan is like the specifications of the machine. I will write the key points here.

App Service Plan

Let’s consider if App Service Plan == Box for apps ??

Whenever you create a new web app, you need to select the App Service Plan or create a new one. This is to specify what kind of hardware you want to use for Azure. Yes, it’s a rough explanation. Let’s take a closer take look from here.

What exactly is an instance?

To put it simply, it is a machine. Simply it’s a VM

What difference between Free plan and Basic plan and above ?

With the Free plan, your app runs on the same instance as other users’ apps (no data is visible). In other words, it is influenced by another app. In Basic and above, a dedicated instance is assigned, so other users will not use…

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Maciej
Maciej

Written by Maciej

DevOps Consultant. I’m strongly focused on automation, security, and reliability.

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