Cheapest Azure services for hosting a SPA website with API + SQL + Storage

Question

Hello, I would like to build a website to distribute a software, so I would like some guidance on what would be the best services.

The website should have:

The website should have:

Static content (Angular SPA)
API to access user data
Dynamic data:
Users
Blog entries
Releases
Binaries (~600MiB) and Images for blog entries.

I was thinking about using a simple AppService + CosmoDB and Blob Storage.
There's also the option for containers.

My concerns are:

• Cost
• Scalability
• Ease of maintenance

Answer 1

I think there' numerous services which would be able to host your app, I'd suggest that you need to consider a few more factors.

• Availability. Is this a hobbyist site that does not high levels of availability? Or should you be considering a HA design that spans multiple regions.
• Feature Capability. What other features of the hosting environment do you need? Static Web Apps are a simple way to host static content, but is not as feature rich as a service like App Service (eg. Slots).
• Non Functionals. What other requirements of the system do you have? Will you a Web Application Firewall for web attack prevention? Do you require private networking? Etc.
• Portability. Are you happy building for Azure services or would you prefer to select services that would more easily support a re-host? Containerising with Azure Container Apps and using the MongoDb driver for CosmosDb would likely bubble to the top as far as options go.
• Experience. What languages and Azure services are you already familiar with and able to quickly troubleshoot to expedite your development.
• Cost Predictability. Do you want predictability each month, or would you prefer the cost to be dynamic on the service usage?
• Cost - Free tiers. It's entirely possible to host using Azure services like Static Web App, Azure Function and Cosmos making extensive use of the free tiers of these services.

A long list (and i could go on!). Often you'll have a weighted requirement, and usually for me it's Experience, Cost and Portability... In that order.