When comparing Azure Web Apps vs CloudApp, the Slant community recommends CloudApp for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud storage services?” CloudApp is ranked 21st while Azure Web Apps is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose CloudApp is:
CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Choose a file, drag it to the menubar and a short URL will be automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload. Additionally you can view, track and delete files right from your menubar.
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Pros
Pro 10 free web apps in each datacenter
There's a free plan which provides you with up to 10 free apps hosted on each datacenter, albeit with some restrictions on hard disk size, CPU and RAM.
Pro Easily scale up and down
It's very easy to scale up or down your app in Azure. You can either scale the CPU or RAM according to your needs. There's even an option for autoscaling which lets Azure itself choose when to scale up or down depending on traffic.
Pro Straightforward sharing
CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Choose a file, drag it to the menubar and a short URL will be automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload.
Additionally you can view, track and delete files right from your menubar.
Pro Free plan
Cloudapp has a free plan that allows uploading 10 files, up to 25MB each, per day.
Cons
Con Too simple
While it's simple enough to share files, isn't complex enough to make a wide organization of files like the others.