Our Migration Story: From Azure App Service to Container Apps

Why Infrastructure Decisions Are Business Decisions As CTO and Co-founder of Datox , I’ve always believed that infrastructure decisions are business decisions. When we started building our Datox platform, Azure App Service was the fastest way to get to market. It allowed us to focus on product, customers, and regulatory workflows without over-engineering from day one. But as Datox evolved, serving more customers, supporting multi-tenant deployments, and expanding into different Azure subscriptions, our architecture needed to evolve too. This post is the story of how and why we migrated from Azure App Service to Azure Container Apps. It was a strategic move that reduced our non-production costs by 90%, enabled true independent scaling, simplified customer deployments, and positioned Datox for a cloud-native, enterprise-ready future. What Are Azure Container Apps? Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless platform for running containerized applications. Built on Kubernetes , it