What is the difference between Azure Web Site and Azure Cloud service

Question

We are looking to host a website (some css,js, one html file but not aspx, one generic handler).

We deployed in as:

1) Azure Web Site

2) Azure Cloud Service

Both solutions work. There is a question though: which way of hosting it is better and why? Second thing: as there might be a lot of traffic - which solution would be cheaper?

Thanks in advance, Krzysztofuncjusz

Answer 1

You may want to review this article that explains the primary differences. Web Sites are best for running web applications that are relatively isolated (that do not require elevated security, remote desktop, network isolation...). Cloud services are more advanced because they give you more control over web sites while still remaining flexible. And VMs are for full control over applications that need to be installed and configured (like running SQL Server for example).