--- title: "Azure Static Web Apps: vendor profile: Agent Ready HTML" description: "Azure Static Web Apps, a host or CDN: 0 of 6 standards stated as supported, 8 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/azure-static-web-apps/ site: "Agent Ready HTML" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Azure Static Web Apps: vendor profile: Agent Ready HTML > Azure Static Web Apps, a host or CDN: 0 of 6 standards stated as supported, 8 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/azure-static-web-apps/ Site: Agent Ready HTML Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # Azure Static Web Apps: vendor profile In short Azure Static Web Apps serves index.html for unmatched paths through navigationFallback, while responseOverrides set what a 404 returns, so a client-side app can hide real 404s. The pages read describe no prerendering for crawlers. The Dedicated plan was retired effective 2025-10-31, and the Free plan allows 3 staging environments. ## At a glance **standards.txt** azure-static-web-apps ```text llms-txt = no statement markdown-negotiation = no statement markdown-twin = no statement initial-html = no statement real-404 = partial vary-accept = no statement ``` 0 supports, 1 partial or announced, 5 no statement. **Azure Static Web Apps** Host, CDN or edge product Microsoft's hosting for static front ends with managed Azure Functions APIs; a navigationFallback setting serves index.html for unmatched paths, and responseOverrides set what a 404 returns. Type [Host, CDN or edge product](https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/by-type/host-or-cdn/) Operator, as the facts below state it Microsoft Home page [azure.microsoft.com/products/app-service/static](https://azure.microsoft.com/products/app-service/static), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Last read 5 November 2026 ## What it does for this layer - Microsoft describes Azure Static Web Apps as a service that deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a code repository, rebuilding on every push to a watched GitHub or Azure DevOps branch. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview), read 5 November 2026. - Microsoft says static web apps on the service are commonly built with Angular, React, Svelte, Vue or Blazor where server-side rendering is not required. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview), read 5 November 2026. - The navigationFallback section in staticwebapp.config.json returns a rewrite target such as /index.html for static file requests that match no deployed file, with an exclude list for paths that should not fall back. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration), read 5 November 2026. - Route rules in Azure Static Web Apps are not applied to requests that trigger navigationFallback. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration), read 5 November 2026. - The responseOverrides section defines a custom response when the server would otherwise return an error code, and Microsoft's examples rewrite 404 to a custom 404.html. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration), read 5 November 2026. - Microsoft's example configuration shows a disabled auth route returning a 404 that then falls back to /index.html with a 200 status code. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration), read 5 November 2026. - A globalHeaders section in Azure Static Web Apps adds HTTP headers to every response unless a route header rule overrides them. \[primary source\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration), read 5 November 2026. - Azure Static Web Apps comes in Free and Standard plans; the Free plan allows 250 MB per app, 3 staging environments and 2 custom domains, and the Dedicated plan was retired effective 2025-10-31. \[primary source, 2025-10-31\] [source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/plans), read 5 November 2026. ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Azure Static Web Apps | Static hosting with Git-triggered builds, managed Functions APIs, routing rules, fallbacks and response overrides. | Free tier, paid plans above it; Free plan for personal projects; Standard plan cost is on the Azure pricing page | 2026-11-05 | source | ## Standards | Standard | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | llms-txt | no statement | No llms.txt feature in the Static Web Apps pages read. | none | | markdown-negotiation | no statement | No Accept-header markdown feature in the pages read. | none | | markdown-twin | no statement | No markdown copy feature in the pages read. | none | | initial-html | no statement | Microsoft frames the service around apps where server-side rendering is not required; HTML is whatever the build emits. | none | | real-404 | partial | Without navigationFallback a missing file can return a 404 overridden by responseOverrides; with the fallback, unmatched paths get index.html. | source | | vary-accept | no statement | Not covered in the pages read. | none | ## Checks on its own site Plain-fetch checks ran on https://azure.microsoft.com/products/app-service/static; the Ora and Cloudflare scores cover the whole host azure.microsoft.com. | Reading | Result | Date | | --- | --- | --- | | Home page request | HTTP 200; H1 in the initial HTML: yes; 1,421 words; 0 JSON-LD blocks | 2026-11-05 | | Request with Accept: text/markdown | HTTP 200, text/html, Vary: Accept-Encoding | 2026-11-05 | | /llms.txt at the host root | HTTP 404, text/html, 92 KB | 2026-11-05 | | A made-up path | HTTP 302, redirect to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-ready-check-ydxgmirf, then HTTP 404 | 2026-11-05 | | Ora score, cached | 51, grade C | 2026-05-11 | | Cloudflare keyless scan | 20, L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | | Shared crawl row | outside the ranked slice; home page HTTP 200; H1 in the HTML: yes; 2,630 words; JSON-LD types: none; answers markdown: no; made-up path HTTP 404; llms.txt valid: no | 2026-11-04 | ## What it does not do - Azure Static Web Apps does not prerender client-side apps for crawlers or agents in the pages read; navigationFallback hands every unmatched path to index.html. ## Related pages on this site - [Hosts, CDNs and edge products in this section](https://agentreadyhtml.com/vendors/by-type/host-or-cdn/) - [The Plain Fetch viewer](https://agentreadyhtml.com/viewer/) ## Sources 1. [Azure Static Web Apps: home page](https://azure.microsoft.com/products/app-service/static) https://azure.microsoft.com/products/app-service/static, read 5 November 2026 2. [What is Azure Static Web Apps? | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview, read 5 November 2026 3. [Configure Azure Static Web Apps | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/configuration, read 5 November 2026 4. [Azure Static Web Apps hosting plans | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/plans) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/plans, read 5 November 2026 Last reviewed 5 November 2026 Edition Crawl 2026-11-04 Page updated 2026-11-05 Method How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).