Create and Deploy an Azure Web Apps in Visual Studio

Azure web apps allow you to host scalable websites, service-oriented applications, dev-ops scenarios, and more. Web apps can be built on .NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, and Python. You can also access your data using SQL databases, MySQL, DocumentDB, Search, and MongoDB. Azure web apps include support for third-party products designed to help build websites, such as the content management systems (CMS) WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, and Drupal. In this section, we focus on building and deploying an ASP.NET website to Azure using Visual Studio.

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