Can someone increase the cost of an Azure Web App with an infinite HTTP loop?

Question

I wonder if someone can increase the cost of an Azure web app of an organization, just by creating an infinite HTTP request loop ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

It's depended on the configuration of your App Service Plan. Let's think about some scenarios.

1. No for your App Service Plan without enabled auto scale out feature. Based on this case, the load performance of your service is fixed, so overfulfil the fixed quota of HTTP requests for your app will not increase its cost and the additional requests over fixed load will be blocked by Azure cloud.

2. Yes if you enabled autoscale feature as the figure below, more and more HTTP requests sent to your app will activate your App Service Plan to increase the instance number of your app till up to the upper limit of the load capacity of your App Service Plan. Then it will increase your cost to the fixed maximum price.