azure container instances (ACI) vs functions

  ACI AKS Description Run containers without managing servers. Orchestrate and manage multiple container images and applications. Deployment For event-driven applications, quickly deploy from your container development pipelines, run data processing, and build jobs. Uses clusters and pods to scale and deploy applications. Web Apps (Monolithic) Yes Yes N-Tier Apps (Services) Yes Yes Cloud-Native (Microservices) Yes Yes, recommended for Linux containers Batch/Jobs (Background tasks) Yes Yes Use cases Dev/Test scenarios Task automation CI/CD agents Small/scale batch processing Simple web apps Containers and application configuration portability Enables you to select the number of hosts, size, and orchestrator tools Transfer container workloads [...]