Running Kentico on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform for hosting and managing applications and services. 

When you want to host your project on Microsoft Azure, you first need to decide which hosting option is the most suitable for you. To decide if you will host your project in Azure Web Apps, Azure Cloud Services or Azure Virtual Machines, see:

Depending on the chosen option, continue to the specific section of the documentation:

Note that there are crucial differences between the project types that you are required to install for each particular hosting option:

  • Azure Web Apps – requires deployment of web application or web site projects.
  • Azure Cloud services – require deployment of Azure projects.

Azure Blob Storage

If you are looking for information on how to connect your Kentico project to Azure Blob Storage without running the Kentico application on Azure, see Configuring Azure storage.