What is App Service Plan?

• App service plan is the container that defines a set of compute resources for your APP service is to use
• App service plan is the hosting configuaration/model by which the cost of resources (used by applications) will be calculated and billed
• Determines what features will be available and how you will be billed
• In App Service, the pricing container for apps is called the App Service plan

What does App Service Plan do?

• Azure region: determines in which region the underlaying VMs will be provisioned
• Number of VM instances (scale-out, scale-in)
• Size of VM instances (CPU/RAM/Storage)
• Pricing Tier: determines which features are available

Creating app service plan using Azure portal

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.AppServicePlanCreate
• Fillup details
• Create and review > Create

Upgrading app service plan using Azure portal

• Go to resource groups: https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/BrowseResourceGroups
• Select target resource group > Select target App service plan
• Settings section > Scale up > Production > S1
• Apply

Creating App service plan using PowerShell

# Create resource group
New-AzResourceGroup -Name "demo-rg" -Location "Japan East"


# Create app service plan
New-AzAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName "demo-rg" -Name "demo-asp" -Location "Japan East" -Tier "Standard"

Upgrading App service plan using PowerShell

# Upgrade app service plan
# Basic -> Standard
Set-AzAppServicePlan -Name "demo-asp" -ResourceGroupName 'demo-rg' -Tier Standard