Hosting Python Web Apps on Azure: A Price-Off

In this article, Pamela Fox, a Microsoft Cloud Advocate, shares her experience of porting her old Google App Engine apps to Azure and hosting them on a personal Azure account.

She compares the costs of hosting two low-traffic websites, pamelafox.org and translationtelephone.com, on Azure Container Apps with a CDN and Azure App Service with a PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

Based on her experience, she recommends Azure Container Apps for low-traffic websites in conjunction with an aggressive CDN to reduce costs. She also suggests using Azure Static Web Apps, which are entirely free, for hobbyist websites that change infrequently.