title: Azure VM, Cloud service or Web job?
body: <p>I am quite new to Azure and not quite sure what service I need to achieve this:</p>
  
  <p>What I want to do is developing an application/service to do some computing tasks. I have created a web API for sending data to my database. I will use the data from my database to perform some computing and store results back in the database. This app/service will be run continuously. </p>
  
  <p>I am not sure if I should use a web job or a cloud service or a virtual machine. They all seem to be able to achieve what I want.. or maybe there are things I should consider?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks,</p>
  
  <p>LT</p>