Azure CDN

• Comparing Azure Static Web Apps and Azure CDN/Storage May 23, 2020 - 4 min read - Azure Static Web Apps Azure CDN Azure Storage

  Recently Microsoft announced a new Azure service: Static Web Apps. This is a competitor service to Netlify, but it also might replace traditional static site hosting with Azure CDN and Azure Storage. But let’s begin with: What is Azure Static Web Apps? Azure Static Web Apps is a service that automatically builds and deploys full-stack web apps to Azure from a GitHub repository. As this quote says, the service is not only for static sites, but also for static web apps.

• Hosting a static site in Azure May 17, 2020 - 4 min read - Azure Storage Azure CDN

  Hosting a static site in Microsoft Azure is quite easy. Since it is possible to use Azure Storage to host a static site an App Service is not needed for that. To also add a custom domain with a free and managed SSL certificate Azure CDN can be used. In this post I’ll show how to create those two services via the Azure CLI to host a static site. First we need to create a resource group, which holds the needed resource for the static site.