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Configure PremiumV3 tier for Azure App Service

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The new PremiumV3 pricing tier gives you faster processors, SSD storage, and quadruple the memory-to-core ratio of the existing pricing tiers (double the PremiumV2 tier). With the performance advantage, you could save money by running your apps on fewer instances. In this article, you learn how to create an app in PremiumV3 tier or scale up an app to PremiumV3 tier.

Prerequisites

To scale-up an app to PremiumV3, you need to have an Azure App Service app that runs in a pricing tier lower than PremiumV3, and the app must be running in an App Service deployment that supports PremiumV3.

PremiumV3 availability

The PremiumV3 tier is available for both native and custom containers, including both Windows containers and Linux containers.

Note

Any Windows containers running in the Premium Container tier during the preview period continue to function as is, but the Premium Container tier will continue to remain in preview. The PremiumV3 tier is the official replacement for the Premium Container tier.

PremiumV3 is available in some Azure regions and availability in additional regions is being added continually. To see if it's available in your region, run the following Azure CLI command in the Azure Cloud Shell:

az appservice list-locations --sku P1V3

Create an app in PremiumV3 tier

The pricing tier of an App Service app is defined in the App Service plan that it runs on. You can create an App Service plan by itself or as part of app creation.

When configuring the App Service plan in the Azure portal, select Pricing tier.

Select Production, then select P1V3, P2V3, or P3V3, then click Apply.

Screenshot showing the recommended pricing tiers for your app.

Important

If you don't see P1V3, P2V3, and P3V3 as options, or if the options are greyed out, then PremiumV3 likely isn't available in the underlying App Service deployment that contains the App Service plan. See Scale up from an unsupported resource group and region combination for more details.

Scale up an existing app to PremiumV3 tier

Before scaling an existing app to PremiumV3 tier, make sure that PremiumV3 is available. For information, see PremiumV3 availability. If it's not available, see Scale up from an unsupported resource group and region combination.

Depending on your hosting environment, scaling up may require extra steps.

In the Azure portal, open your App Service app page.

In the left navigation of your App Service app page, select Scale up (App Service plan).

Screenshot showing how to scale up your app service plan.

Select Production, then select P1V3, P2V3, or P3V3, then click Apply.

Screenshot showing the recommended pricing tiers for your app.

If your operation finishes successfully, your app's overview page shows that it's now in a PremiumV3 tier.

Screenshot showing the PremiumV3 pricing tier on your app's overview page.

If you get an error

Some App Service plans can't scale up to the PremiumV3 tier if the underlying App Service deployment doesn’t support PremiumV3. See Scale up from an unsupported resource group and region combination for more details.

Scale up from an unsupported resource group and region combination

If your app runs in an App Service deployment where PremiumV3 isn't available, or if your app runs in a region that currently does not support PremiumV3, you need to re-deploy your app to take advantage of PremiumV3. You have two options:

  • Create an app in a new resource group and with a new App Service plan. When creating the App Service plan, select a PremiumV3 tier. This step ensures that the App Service plan is deployed into a deployment unit that supports PremiumV3. Then, redeploy your application code into the newly created app. Even if you scale the App Service plan down to a lower tier to save costs, you can always scale back up to PremiumV3 because the deployment unit supports it.

  • If your app already runs in an existing Premium tier, then you can clone your app with all app settings, connection strings, and deployment configuration into a new resource group on a new app service plan that uses PremiumV3.

    Screenshot showing how to clone your app.

    In the Clone app page, you can create an App Service plan using PremiumV3 in the region you want, and specify the app settings and configuration that you want to clone.

Moving from Premium Container to Premium V3 SKU

The Premium Container SKU will be retired on 30th June 2022. You should move your applications to the Premium V3 SKU ahead of this date. Use the clone functionality in the Azure App Service CLI experience to move your application from your Premium Container App Service Plan to a new Premium V3 App Service plan.

Automate with scripts

You can automate app creation in the PremiumV3 tier with scripts, using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell.

Azure CLI

The following command creates an App Service plan in P1V3. You can run it in the Cloud Shell. The options for --sku are P1V3, P2V3, and P3V3.

az appservice plan create \
    --resource-group <resource_group_name> \
    --name <app_service_plan_name> \
    --sku P1V3

Azure PowerShell

Note

We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. See Install Azure PowerShell to get started. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.

The following command creates an App Service plan in P1V3. The options for -WorkerSize are Small, Medium, and Large.

New-AzAppServicePlan -ResourceGroupName <resource_group_name> `
    -Name <app_service_plan_name> `
    -Location <region_name> `
    -Tier "PremiumV3" `
    -WorkerSize "Small"

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