Microsoft unveils Azure App Service, digs into cloud first mantra again

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

With everything Microsoft releases, it’s a “mobile first, cloud first” mantra which accompanies it. This is no different; the tech giant has announced the launch of the Azure App Service, a cloud service which enables developers to built web and mobile apps for any platform and any device.

The service brings together the capabilities from Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services and Azure BizTalk Services. Microsoft aims to provide an integrated solution that streamlines development while enabling easy integration with on-premise and SaaS systems and quickly automate business processes…


Azure App Service offers the chance to develop web apps, enabling users to host any website, web app and API in the cloud, mobile apps, which offers a mobile application development platform, logic apps, which can integrate the likes of Salesforce, Dropbox and Office 365 to Azure PaaS services, and API apps, whereby developers can take a rich library of existing on-premise and cloud APIs…

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