How many App Services for one application?

Question

As an a Azure app service plan can host unlimited apps (api or web), for the same service plan, would API apps function any differently (e.g. perform worse or better) if they ar

Answer 1

The only way to answer this from the outside without knowing anything about your app is “it depends”. There’s no reason a decently sized modern app which leverages a modern front end framework in the browser talking to web apis can’t run on a single app service with an appropriately sized app service plan.

Start there and then measure performance and watch your system health under normal load. If the app needs it, scale up the app service plan. If you want something more robust, and your app is written to support it, scale out your app service plan.

App service is so easy to scale and measure just do the work to get it off the ground. Set up pipelines to deploy your code and azure assets. Measure, tweak, deploy.