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Introduction to Azure application components

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Introduction to Azure application components

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- [Instructor] When we build applications, we need to run our code on something. Traditionally, this would be a virtual machine, and of course, we can still build virtual machines to deploy our applications to them. However, Azure offers far more options. Virtual machines are classed as Infrastructure as a Service, because they're close to a more modern infrastructure-based, on-premises solution. A more dynamic and flexible option is Platform as a Service. Web apps and Azure functions both fall under the Platform as a Service, and in the case of functions, they can also be another subset of that area called "serverless". As a quick recap, "Platform as a Service" and "serverless" basically means that all the underlying infrastructure and operating system configuration is completely abstracted away. In other words, you only need to worry about the code that you are deploying to those services. Let's have a look at two of the…

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