The “L” of the LAMP stack is achieved by instantiating an Ubuntu server on the Azure platform. By and large this process is straight-forward and follows the Azure provided instructions. As this is documented in Microsoft documentation, this will not be reproduced here. In our tests, we chose an Ubuntu 18.04 image and deployed it on a Standard B1ms (1 vcpus, 2 GiB memory) virtual machine. We chose the B1ms VM because the B-series VMs seem to provide “burstable performance” (Shimanskiy & Hughes, 2020). Here is an excerpt of the Microsoft Document on the B-series VMs: Part of the challenge of using the Azure platform is that we had to be very deliberate in the chosen specifications relating to VMs as these decisions will have financial impacts. Azure offers various sizes of General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, Storage-Optimized, Memory-Optimized, GPU, and High Performance Compute VMs. As our web server did not require any specific features, we stayed in the General