Register to Better Coder! It's free.
Enjoy the premium features and succeed at every job interview.
You use Azure App Service and don't want to have any downtime. You are thinking whether you should scale up or scale out. What would you recommend?
Experience Level: Senior
Tags: Azure App serviceAzure Cloud
Answer
Scaling up/down causes downtime as the App Service Plan VM needs to be restarted.
Scaling out does not cause downtime as a new instance of VM is added.
Related Azure Cloud job interview questions
What are Azure Dedicated Hosts?
Azure Cloud SeniorWhat are Zone Redundant Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Azure?
Azure CloudAzure Virtual Machine Scale Sets SeniorYou need to make sure that your Azure SQL Database backups will be retained for at least 5 years. How will you solve this requirement?
Azure CloudAzure SQL Database SeniorYou run application on Azure virtual machine. You need to ensure that the application will run even when a single data center fails. How will you solve this requirement?
Azure CloudAzure Virtual Machines SeniorYou need to recommend a disaster recovery solution for your Azure SQL database that needs to remain available even when the whole region fails. What should you include in the recommendation?
Azure CloudAzure SQL Database Senior