There are three main types of files that an Azure Web App can deal with

Persisted files

This is what you can view as your web site's files. They follow a structure described ​​here​​​. They are rooted in ​​d:\home​​​, which can also be found using the ​​%HOME%​​​ environment variable. For App Service on Linux and Web app for Containers, persistent storage is rooted in ​​/home​​.

These files are persistent, meaning that you can rely on them staying there until you do something to change them. Also, they are shared between all instances of your site (when you scale it up to multiple instances). Internally, the way this works is that they are stored in Azure Storage instead of living on the local file system.

Free and Shared sites get 1GB of space, Basic sites get 10GB, and Standard sites get 50GB. See more details on the ​​Web App Pricing​​ page.

Temporary files

A number of common Windows locations are using temporary storage on the local machine. For instance

  • ​%APPDATA%​​​ points to something like​​D:\local\AppData​​.
  • ​%TMP%​​​ goes to​​D:\local\Temp​​.

Unlike Persisted files, these files are not shared among site instances. Also, you cannot rely on them staying there. For instance, if you restart a web app, you'll find that all of these folders get reset to their original state.

For Free, Shared and Consumption (Functions) sites, there is a 500MB limit for all these locations together (i.e. not per-folder).

For Standard and Basic sites, the limit is higher and differs depending on the SKU. The limit applies to all sites in the same App Service Plan. For instance, if you have 10 sites in S2 App Service Plan, those sites (and their scm sites) will have a combined limit of 15 GB. See limit for other SKU below.

SKU Family

B1/S1/etc.

B2/S2/etc.

B3/S3/etc.

Basic, Standard, Premium

11 GB

15 GB

58 GB

PremiumV2, Isolated

21 GB

61 GB

140 GB

Another important note is that the Main site and the scm site do not share temp files. So if you write some files there from your site, you will not see them from Kudu Console (and vice versa). You can make them use the same temp space if you disable separation (via ​​WEBSITE_DISABLE_SCM_SEPARATION​​). But note that this is a legacy flag, and its use is not recommended/supported.

You can check your limit and usage in portal by going to "Diagnose and solve problems" section of your App Service blade, selecting "Best Practices", "Best Practices for Availability, Performance", and then "Temp File Usage On Workers". Please note that the displayed usage and limits are per worker, and are aggregated across all apps in the same app service plan.

Machine level read-only files

The Web App is able to access many standard Windows locations like %ProgramFiles% and %windir%. These files can never be modified by the Web App.

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