# Azure App Service
#azure #cloud #compute
It is a cloud computing based platform for hosting websites in Azure, created and operated by Microsoft. It is a PaaS which allows publishing Web apps running on multiple frameworks and written in different programming languages, including Microsoft proprietary ones and 3rd party ones.An Azure subscription is a logical container used to provision resources in Azure. It holds the details of all your resources like virtual machines (VMs), databases, and more. When you create an Azure resource like a VM, you identify the subscription it belongs to.