# Running Discourse on Azure Web Sites vs. Azure VM?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-on-azure-web-sites-vs-azure-vm/14183
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [27 maart 2014 om 12:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-on-azure-web-sites-vs-azure-vm/14183 "2014-03-27T12:43:35Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [12 augustus 2020 om 11:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-on-azure-web-sites-vs-azure-vm/14183/10 "2020-08-12T11:02:07Z")

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Hmm, looks like it hasn’t been tested:

> [@Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-object-storage-for-uploads-s3-clones/148916):
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> information_source This topic covers how to configure some common S3 compatible Object Storage providers (S3 clones). See [Set up file and image uploads to S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229) for more details about Amazon AWS S3 configuration, which is officially supported and used internally by Discourse for our hosting services. Provider Service Name Works with Discourse? [Amazon AWS](#aws-s3-2) S3 Yes [Digital Ocean](#digital-ocean-spaces-3) Spaces Yes [Linode](#linode-object-storage-4) Object Storage Yes [Google Cloud](#google-cloud-platform-storage-5) Storage Yes [Scaleway](#scaleway-object-storage-6) Object Storage Yes [Vultr](#vultr-object-storage-7) Obj…

You can try out Azure Blob Storage’s S3-like interface (non-plugin) using the templates in the above topic and see if it works.

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