@Srishti Ganguly That is good to hear. Unfortunately, there was some bug preventing it for the deployment for which products team has provided a fix. Regarding your long running deployment from what I know, the deployment depends on the region in which the webapp is deployed. If the region is running hot, webapp deployment might take a lot of time. The time should be the same as creating a new webapp using the azure portal.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks
Saurabh
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