Azure Containers Services: Pricing and Feature Comparison
Many engineers get lost in Azure’s services for running containers. Starting with the basic Azure container services, the cloud provider quickly developed other options like AKS and Azure Container Apps to give users even more options of where and how to run containers.Â
A high number of container-as-a-service solutions Azure offers address the needs of enterprises looking to move legacy monolithic applications to the cloud and containers, decreasing application deployment and management complexity at the same time. But Azure’s offering spans more than that.Â
You can find plenty of easily accessible information about Azure service offerings for running containers. But there aren’t many direct comparisons in terms of pricing. At the end of the article, we added a table of prices normalized based on compute resources. That way, you can compare these services like apples to apples. But first, let’s get through the high-level functionality of each service.Â