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user1176058
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Reputation: 676

Azure App Service Plan

If I select an app service plan that allows scaling up to 10 instances, will I be charged the price stated for that plan or will I be charged 10 * [the Price of the plan]?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 271

Answers (1)

Andreas Vogl
Andreas Vogl

Reputation: 1864

Azure App Service plans support a variety of pricing models, thus it depends on the type of plan.

Generally, the "idea" of Azure App Service plans is that you pay for a specific set of resources (CPU, memory, disk etc.) that are shared among all of your applications/ instances. That means you generally pay a "flat fee" for the plan and can run as many apps as you like, as long as the resources can support it - and you don't exceed any limits or quotas. If you run too many apps however, performance as a whole will degrade, due to shared resources getting exhausted.

Here is a good documentation explaining the concepts behind App Service plans.

Things get more complicated when looking at the more expensive plans. There are models where your applications are hosted on dedicated virtual machines. This may be consideres as "paying for a certain number of instances", but it depends on your opinion of what the term "instance" means.

Upvotes: 3

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