Azure Container Apps
Serverless container platform on Azure that runs containerized applications and jobs without managing servers, scaling on HTTP, TCP or event rules.
Who it suits
Containerised services and jobs already inside an Azure subscription, where the monthly free grant of 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 2 million requests covers low traffic and scaling to zero stops usage charges between bursts.
Consider something else if…
Requests can run longer than the 240-second ingress timeout, or you want to read an uptime figure on a web page: Microsoft publishes its SLA only inside a consolidated downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics, Office and Intune.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
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- Billing in Azure Container Apps ↗
“the following resources are free during each calendar month, per subscription: the first 180,000 vcpu-seconds the first 360,000 gib-seconds the first 2 million http requests”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs
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- Billing in Azure Container Apps ↗
“the following resources are free during each calendar month, per subscription: the first 180,000 vcpu-seconds the first 360,000 gib-seconds the first 2 million http requests free usage doesn't appear on your bill. you're only charged when your resource usage exceeds the monthly free grants amounts.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs
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- Billing in Azure Container Apps ↗
“consumption plan serverless compute option where you're only billed for the resources your apps use as they're running. dedicated plan customized compute options where you're billed for instances allocated to each workload profile.”
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- Ingress in Azure Container Apps ↗
“a fully qualified domain name (fqdn) request time out is 240 seconds”
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- Azure Container Apps overview ↗
“azure container apps is a serverless platform for running containerized applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.”
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- Set scaling rules in Azure Container Apps ↗
“if you want to ensure that an instance of your revision is always running, set the minimum number of replicas to 1 or higher.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs
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- Set scaling rules in Azure Container Apps ↗
“you aren't billed usage charges if your container app scales to zero. replicas that aren't processing but remain in memory might be billed at a lower "idle" rate.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs
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