The Azure Static Web Apps hosting service is finally generally available after being put into preview way back in May 2020. There will be a free plan as well as a standard plan.

Microsoft's Azure App Platform Team -- the domain these days of Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie -- is working on a hosting framework for Web apps that will work across both Windows Azure ...

Call it low-code for the web: Azure Static Web Apps has reached general availability, providing a quick onramp to full-stack projects with static front ends and dynamic back ends powered by Azure ...

Azure App Service integrates Azure Websites (now known as Web Apps), Azure Mobile Services and BizTalk Services. The new unified service has a common app-hosting, runtime and extensibility model.

Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft Azure Cloud and on-premise installations.

Until Microsoft adds a native command that easily connects virtual directories to Azure Web apps, we're going to have to do it ourselves.