Azure Web Apps was the name for a cloud computing based platform for hosting websites, created and operated by Microsoft.

It is a platform as a service (PaaS) which allows publishing Web apps running on multiple frameworks and written in different programming languages (.NET, node.js, PHP, Python and Java), including Microsoft proprietary ones and 3rd party ones.

[3] Microsoft initially offered a basic web hosting service as part of Office Live Small Business, which was launched in late 2007.

[7] Microsoft Azure Web Sites is a web-hosting platform that supports multiple technologies, and programming languages (.NET, node.js, PHP, Python).

[11] On some for-pay tiers, the user has the added option of uploading an SSL certificate and configuring the site to be bound to HTTPS.

The free tier supports up to 10 websites with 1 GB of content storage, and is limited to 165 MB of daily data egress.

The Standard tier supports SSL (both SNI and IP-based), scaling out to up to 10 instances, and file storage of up to 50 GB of content.