Is there any kind of dev/test instance that has the Always On feature?

Question

So, I have a free tier Azure account and I have an app service configured. I've been looking at my app service configurations and I was thinking about the possibility of enabling the "Always On" feature so my server don't go into idle mode. Nowadays, I use the dev/test F1 type of instance, which is free but doesn't allow me to enable the "Always On".
As the dev/test instances are more inexpensive than the production ones, I was thinking of switching to another dev/test if it had the "Always On" feature
Is there any dev/test instance available with this feature on the free tier?

Answer 1

@Carol Josephik Thanks for reaching out. The Always On feature is available only to apps on Basic and higher tiers, as noted in the App Service limits doc.

App Service Free and Shared (preview) hosting plans are base tiers that run on the same Azure VM as other App Service apps, possibly also including apps of other customers. These tiers are intended to be used only for development and testing purposes.

Each pricing tier provides a specific subset of App Service features. The higher the tier, the more features are available.
Therefore, you would need to scale up to at least the Basic tier to leverage the Always On capability. To find out which features are supported in each pricing tier, see App Service plan details.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have further questions.

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