Microsoft Azure App Service Room for Improvement

Reema Nandi - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Associate Manager at Accenture

The product could be improved by including crude operations. Previously, we provided it in the same application. However, when the operation went down, other operations also went down. This was one of the risks we had to overcome with this solution to avoid other operations being affected when one operation went down. With this resolved, the performance will be seamless because data can be handled simultaneously.

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Mudasser Farooq Mian - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Chief Technology Officer at Punjab Group

I want more transparency in billing. It would be better if we could understand and control the billing to customize it. Also, Microsoft should provide more guidance about the widgets and subsets of various products. The Microsoft portfolio is so huge that it's sometimes difficult to choose the correct option. There's always a chance we are paying more than necessary.

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Arti Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at UGL

Extended uptime and improved speed would be beneficial for both development purposes and the free tier of the service. Currently, the uptime is limited to a few hours per day, which could be increased to provide more continuous and efficient usage.

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Sharjeel Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Security Operations at Edotco Group

Limited integration is an area for improvement in Microsoft Azure App Service.

Another area for improvement in the platform is multi-language support. That still needs to be added because, at the moment, my team still has to work on specific Python languages whenever the API calls need to be configured.

The pricing tier for Microsoft Azure App Service also has room for improvement because it significantly varies. For example, you have premium and dynamic pricing, and people on P2 should be offered dynamic pricing or the high-priced tier on offer could still be worked on.

I want a lifecycle pipeline feature, similar to Azure Pipelines from Microsoft Azure App Service. For example, when configuring the pipelines, I should be able to configure the cloud security posture for a specific deployment. By default, there should be a prebuilt cloud security option that can be configured before moving into the production environment.

Microsoft Azure App Service should also give you a clue regarding the risks. It would be best if you didn't have to connect to other modules because that wouldn't be as beneficial to platform users, mainly because Microsoft Azure App Service has a lot of security development kits.

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Andriy Lyubimov - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure Practice Leader at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Price could be reduced.

Particularly with Azure Web Apps. According to their current architecture, moving services from one Azure subscription to another is difficult.

Customers can consume the Azure platform through a variety of subscriptions from various partners, financial visions, current political visions, and so on. Some services on the Microsoft Azure platform can be moved automatically from one subscription to another based on security and financial rules, while others cannot.

Azure Web Apps are the type of service that does not automatically move from subscription to subscription, and region to region. A lot of manual labor must be performed by their organization, customer, and engineers, if necessary.

They must pay too much attention to how to plan this, how to switch off, switch on, on which days, at what times, and so on. A lot of administrative work is done, but it's not very good. 

It would be fantastic if Microsoft morphed after my exit service, removing it from subscriptions and moving it to different regions, especially for that service.

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PJ
Senior Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There is still room for improvement in terms of the maturity of the solution. Everything is available that we need, but the issue is that they are still upgrading. Even though they have Azure applications and automation services, they still need to mature more. There are many things that need to mature and the road map for this is quite long, taking another three to eight years to have a mature solution.

The dashboards could improve. Customers are still not satisfied with the current releases, and because there are too many releases.

Microsoft Azure App Service apps cannot be deployed on-premise. They can only be deployed in the cloud.

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Babatunde Ojo - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Tek Experts

Customers love it when a solution is affordable, but with Microsoft Azure App Service, you can start and stop it, and when you stop it, it won't be reachable and it won't be available, yet you're still being charged for it.

You'll still be charged even if the solution isn't accessible because Microsoft Azure App Service runs on a shared virtual machine that keeps on running, so if there's a way to work this out, it'll be a great improvement to only pay for what you use. The solution should have no hidden cost and no extra charge when it's stopped. This is what needs improvement in Microsoft Azure App Service.

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Akinwale Awoyele - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Consultant at Deloitte

I would like to see some improvement in the UI/UX design, to make navigation of this solution more user friendly. For example, it could contain more explicit information on each of the features.

There should also be some development on the architectural flow of this product, to show application dependencies across the network. This would help with fixing issues that may impact other areas.

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ND
DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS at CodeOneMedia

Microsoft Azure App Service needs some improvement in the scaling area. The solution should also be able to easily host apps that don't have an HTML front end.

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Ronald Rhey Minoza - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at PROJECT MOONSHOT

Microsoft Azure App Service has a lot of complexity because there are a lot of options and functionality. It is simple to become confused, there are many technical elements to learn before you can utilize the solution. If they could make the solution easier to use it would be a benefit. 

In an upcoming release, mobile device usage could be a better experience.

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Ahmed Akanni - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure App Service Technical Supprt Engineer at Tek Experts

For now, I don't think there are any improvements to highlight.

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Khouloud Yengui - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Naxxum

Having a surplus of tutorials from Microsoft, rather than relying solely on documentation or features from other sources like YouTube, can be beneficial.

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JG
IT Manager at Olympus Global

So far, it has been good. We haven't used it for that long and haven't had any issues. 

The pricing is average. It could be lower.

There are still some improvements that could be leveraged in the future to make it even better.

The response time could be better.

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YM
Solution Architect at Komatsu

If you're on the cloud, you just get a web interface without much detail for additional configuration or the authority to configure the root or system-level configuration. This is a weakness in the cloud version compared to desktop. In the next release, Microsoft should provide additional options for configuring the deployment environment.

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Chijindu Obioma - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Tek Experts

The solution can be improved by increasing the number of data centres worldwide.

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VY
Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sizing is an area where Microsoft Azure App Service lacks, so it should be made possible to upscale. When trying to scale up, it has a limitation, specifically an upper limitation. In general, scalability should be improved.

The features we use in Microsoft Azure App Service are thirty percent of the tool's services. There are a lot of other options. There's nothing that I can think of that we wanted to configure or the client wanted that was not there in App Service. Nothing needs to be added to the solution.

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Christian Sanabria - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Professional at Tecnológico de Costa Rica

I would like to see some significant improvement in the technical support provision for this solution. 

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Mouly Korthiwada - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy Services

Recently, we have used some scheduling and event management. From an IoT use case perspective, we're all good, however, we should have additional plugins.

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UU
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The outbound connectivity is not great but can be improved because, on virtual machines, the Microsoft Azure App Service uses four or five outbound IPs. So basically, if you want to communicate with an external source, you can use outbound IPs. For example, you must whitelist the outbound IP when communicating with an SQL database externally. However, because it's a multi-tenant environment and other customer applications are being shared on a skills tab, there are always limitations in the smart port. So each customer has a particular allocated smart port, which they should exhaust. It helps to work with the code. Regardless of features like a firewall where they have a hub and an environment they have features like a front door which can increase the smart port's limits to about 64,000. Hence, it will be good to have one IP without needing to add any other infrastructure.

Additionally, they can improve scaling the typical environment in terms of scalability. I believe the limit for the multi-tenant environment is about 20 to 30 maximum on the PV3. So if they can increase that, other than having these significant scaling limits for the Microsoft Azure App Service environment, which is about 200, that will also help.

Also, dedicating one outbound IP for App Service will go a long way.

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BD
Cloud solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I can't pinpoint a specific feature that can be included in the next release because Microsoft is making new changes to the app every day. Currently, everything works perfectly. 

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Abdul Ghani Shahzaib - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

They need to be more transparent in terms of the scalability of the product. It's not clear how many users can use it in tandem. The non-functional information about the platform should also be readily available. 

Unlike AWS, which has many offerings, Microsoft's choices are more limited. AWS also has manuals and videos in order to clarify how things work. Microsoft needs more of that. 

Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not yet have local in-country clouds. 

The solution is somewhat expensive. They have a lot of competition from open-source rivals and need to make their offering more competitive somehow. 

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KrishnaMurthy3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Director - Microsoft & Opensource at GyanSys Inc.

Microsoft Azure App Service could improve by having better integration with on-premise solutions.

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AH
Integration Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

If you are not using the product properly, then it can cost you a lot of money. Hence, you need to make sure that you choose the services wisely. You need to make sure that you have a budget and have some alerts associated with it. The tool's cost can easily go high if you don't consider these things properly. You need to review your existing subscription.  

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Roshan George Thallamore - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure DevOps and Cloud Lead at a consultancy with self employed

In terms of room for improvement, ease of deployment would be an area that needs some focus. Azure does provide out-of-the-box deployment features, but I found that deploying to an App Service instance can be better in terms of more tools that could be available to perform a deployment.

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Eric Shimokawa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Head at Nova Futura

The cost management of this solution could be better. We only receive estimations.

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KR
Enterprise Architect at Prinzhorn IT

There is always room for improvement price-wise.

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Lluis De Miquel - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert Architect / Development Leader at Viewnext

There are no issues with the solution. I’m happy with the product.

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MH
Specialist Advisor (Data Custodian) at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Microsoft Azure App Service could improve by having better integration and connectivity with other platforms. The solution has good integration with other large companies' solutions but there are smaller service platforms companies where there could be integrated better.

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RK
Technical Architect at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Initially, there were some rare instances when the server went down because it was deployed on Linux. There are some features that are not available on the Linux-based deployment, yet are available on Windows. This is something that I think Microsoft has now caught up.

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MS
DGM (Software) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's too early to really say what features are lacking at this point.

I am new to the intervention and I find it difficult to find my way around the user interface. I have my own learning tool. However, it could be simpler for new users.

The pricing could be a bit less.

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SM
Architect at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would like to see faster adoption and maybe they can give you some templates, so that we can deploy something and then modify the template. For instance, having templates for creating a website will make things faster and easier.

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Ferran T. - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Sosteca

In terms of improvement, the technical support could be better.

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BS
Chief Analytics Officer at Idiro Analytics

There has been some building of pipelines where we've had to test and redesign a little so if there were maybe some easier to setup guides or more template data flows that would be an improvement. It would simplify the center processes. It would probably be impossible to have a template for everyone, but maybe there's some way to kind of simplify the initial stack and point frame for new users like ourselves, to make getting off the ground a little bit easier.

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AS
Business Intelligence Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The cost of the solution needs improvement.

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JM
CTO at Tikean Ltd

The logging and monitoring could improve in Microsoft Azure App Service.

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FS
Senior Software Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is not unsual that we run into problems related to the deployment and post-installation. But Azure team is aware of these issues and continuously keeps improving the Azure stack.

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AS
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

App Service sometimes becomes very slow to respond, and it can be difficult to find the issue causing this. Including more detailed error logs would be an improvement. 

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ST
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The network side needs improvement. It has to be more stable. Sometimes we have issues with the network side when we expand the solution. You need to find stability in order to expand the solution properly. When we do that, or we add another app service through the app service plan, we have issues with the network, and we lose communication between our data center and the app service.

The solution needs better integration capabilities on the network side. There should be more options, for example, to update the DNS server, straight to the app service.

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Microsoft Azure App Service
March 2024
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