Imagine that you are the lead software developer for a company that has decided to move to Azure. Traditionally, you used on-premises VMs for your development and deployment. However, moving forward, you want to take advantage of Azure App Services for functional, web, and mobile app development and deployment to reduce the administrative burden on your development staff. Before you can do this, however, you need to define the benefits and considerations for moving to this new deployment paradigm.

What are some of the key benefits your developers and company gain by moving to Azure App Service over on-premises VMs? What things do you need to consider as part of the migration when moving to Azure App Service? Take into consideration how other services and users access those apps today, where they are accessing the apps from (i.e. geographically), and how these apps must be secured and monitored to guarantee a level of availability and performance.