A city wants to host a public grants website with managed web hosting and prefers not to patch guest OS images itself. Which application hosting option fits that need?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Managed web hosting without babysitting the guest OS points to App Service web apps. VMs give you the OS; archive blobs store cold files; ExpressRoute is a pipe. Match the hosting style to the ask.
Full Explanation
Azure App Service web apps provide managed platform hosting for HTTP applications: you deploy the site, and Azure handles much of the underlying platform patching and scaling so the city does not operate guest OS images day to day. That matches a public grants website where the goal is managed web hosting rather than administering Windows or Linux guests. Virtual Machines can host websites, but they are IaaS: the team would still patch and harden the guest OS—the opposite of the preference stated here. ExpressRoute supplies private dedicated connectivity; it is a network circuit, not an HTML-serving compute host, so it cannot replace a web hosting service. Blob archive tier is cold object storage optimized for rarely retrieved data; it does not run web server processes for public citizen-facing sites. Choosing App Service keeps the grants portal on a PaaS path aligned with reduced OS babysitting. Exam caveat: App Service still requires application-level security, identity, TLS, and configuration work—managed platform does not mean zero responsibility for the application itself. Operational check: create a web app (or App Service plan plus app), deploy a simple grants page, confirm the default hostname responds over HTTPS, and verify platform updates remain Microsoft-managed while your team controls only app settings and code.