Moving existing nopcommerce 4.00 website to azure

I want to move my currently running nopcommerce application to the cloud. Please suggest me how to do it. Do I have to create a VM instance from scratch and then installing all the system requirements like SQL server for database, windows server as OS, IIS for web server, .net framework on the instance. Or is there any alternate way to skip those steps and directly migrate it on the cloud.

Thanks.

You can create a WebApp + Sql database service and use ftp to deploy your nopCommerce installation files. If you create a virtual machine, you'll need to do a lot of configuration before you can start working with nopCommerce.

You can import your existing database using Management Studio. You might have to whitelist your IP to access the Sql database on azure.

Hope that helps.
Regards,
Anshul

Thanks for the reply buddy. What do you mean by creating a web app exactly?  
Does that mean, if I install nopcommerce on azure's from its marketplace.  Would that count it as web app?  If yes then I have done this step,  you can visit https://ssc-nopcommerce.azurewebsites.net where I have installed the nopcommerce. What next I should do?  Or if possible can you provide me your contact info so that I can be in touch with you. It would be appreciated. Thank you again for the response.

I am trying to export Data Tier Applicaiton to Azure Storage and it is giving me this error
Error SQL71564: Error validating element [dbo].[ProductLoadAllPagedNopAjaxFilters]: The element [dbo].[ProductLoadAllPagedNopAjaxFilters] cannot be deployed as the script body is encrypted.
do i've to decrypt it?