Azure Cloud services summary Azure cloud has a wide range of services available to help you get your code and data on the cloud. I decided to pen down few thoughts about which service to use in different use case scenarios. Beware, this is not a formal or official guide,ymmv! Deploy web / API application on cloud Your web application in this case could be a user facing web UI having HTML/CSS for front-end or an API application serving only JSON like data without any HTML.