Important Cloud Services (classic) is now deprecated

Manage Cloud Services (classic) in the Azure portal

In this article

1. 
   Update a cloud service role or deployment
   
2. 
   Swap deployments to promote a staged deployment to production
   
3. 
   Delete deployments and a cloud service
   
4. 
   Find more information about failed deployments
   
5. 
   Next steps
   

 Important
Cloud Services (classic) is now deprecated for new customers and will be retired on August 31st, 2024 for all customers. New deployments should use the new Azure Resource Manager based deployment model Azure Cloud Services (extended support).
In the Cloud Services area of the Azure portal, you can:

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  Update a service role or a deployment.
  
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  Promote a staged deployment to production.
  
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  Link resources to your cloud service so that you can see the resource dependencies and scale the resources together.
  
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  Delete a cloud service or a deployment.
  

For more information about how to scale your cloud service, see Configure auto-scaling for a cloud service in the portal.

Update a cloud service role or deployment

If you need to update the application code for your cloud service, use Update on the cloud service blade. You can update a single role or all roles. To update, you can upload a new service package or service configuration file.

1. 
   In the Azure portal, select the cloud service you want to update. This step opens the cloud service instance blade.
   
2. 
   On the blade, select Update.
   

3. 
   Update the deployment with a new service package file (.cspkg) and service configuration file (.cscfg).
   

4. 
   Optionally, update the storage account and the deployment label.
   
5. 
   If any roles have only one role instance, select the Deploy even if one or more roles contain a single instance check box to enable the upgrade to proceed.
   

Azure can guarantee only 99.95 percent service availability during a cloud service update if each role has at least two role instances (virtual machines). With two role instances, one virtual machine processes client requests while the other is updated.

6. 
   Select the Start deployment check box to apply the update after the upload of the package has finished.
   
7. 
   Select OK to begin updating the service.