Azure API App vs Web App

Azure Web API Apps, one of the Azure App Service features that offers a rich platform and ecosystem for building, consuming, and distributing APIs in the cloud and on-premises.

The key accomplishments using Azure API Apps are as follows:

• Integrate with SaaS and enterprise applications
• Generate client proxies or APIs in your language of choice
• Automate versioning and deployment of API Apps
• Secure APIs with Active Directory, Single Sign-On, and OAuth
• Share APIs internally with organizational gallery

Azure Web Apps are the compute resources that Azure provides for hosting a website or web application in App Service. With Web Apps get a fully managed platform to build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds.

 These are the main features of the Web App:

• High availability with auto-patching
• Continuous deployment with Git, TFS, GitHub
• Deployment slots, testing in production, Web Jobs and continuous integration
• Web Apps Gallery: WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, Drupal

It provides scalable and enterprise-ready systems along with continuous integration that can be built using the app services. Web development framework backing is open as well.[Read More...]

Originally published at Serverless360 site.