Updated: July 23, 2020 (September 27, 2018)
Charts & IllustrationsComparison of Container Services
| Service | OS Environment | Size and Scaling | Persistence | Orchestration | Target Scenarios |
| Container Instances | Linux and Windows Server | Up to small groups of containers, no scaling | Batch processing and overflow capacity | No, but can be integrated into an AKS cluster | Rapid deployment of containers for purposes such as task automation, build jobs, testing, and overflow capacity |
| App Service | Linux and Windows Server | Single containers, limited scaling | Persistent applications | No | Simple Web sites and Web apps running in single container |
| Batch | Linux and Windows Server | Multiple containers, limited scaling | Batch processing | No | Large-scale parallel and HPC workloads such as modeling, rendering, and analysis |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Linux only | Multiple containers with scaling via orchestration | Persistent applications | Yes, Kubernetes | Persistent Linux-based |
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