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In 2020, our organization started using Azure Application Gateway and we have had a great experience. We started using this software …
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What is Azure Application Gateway?
Microsoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.
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What is Azure Application Gateway?
Microsoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.
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May 15, 2022
One of the best web traffic load balancer
In 2020, our organization started using Azure Application Gateway and we have had a great experience. We started using this software because we wanted software that can cognitive services like natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning. Azure Application Gateway has helped us reduce our cost and it fits our basic WAF requirement.
- Azure Application Gateway helps with URL/URI load balancing.
- Azure Application Gateway offers great technical support.
- The software provides automatic scaling of resources for the demand.
- No issues were encountered while deploying the software and after.
- The price is high, there should be more data packet filtering options available.
- The documentation that comes with the software can be a bit confusing.
We currently use a lot of Azure Services like Azure Function Apps, and Application Gateway will be a key role in a microservice architecture, we use it as a gateway for routing to our backend APIs.
- Easy to use.
- Friendly UI.
- Best performance.
- Price is a little bit high.
- Some feature is hard to understand.
- Lack of some document.
February 14, 2022
Azure Application Gateway at a Glance
We use Azure Application Gateway in our organization when simple load balancing is not enough and application layer load balancing is required. We deploy this product for our production applications because of that and also because it comes with a web application firewall, that allows configuring a highly customizable ruleset.
- WAF
- Application layer LB
- SSL termination
- There is no annotations for WAF rules, makes it hard to manage
February 14, 2022
Scale the data request as you wanted with Azure Application gateway
We have a lot of images and files to put in place in our application. We had to find a perfect load balancer, and Azure Application Gateway helped to get this achieved easily, as it is good in scaling as well.
- Uploading images by multiple end-users from several applications like web, mobile, etc.
- When there is a high volume of data requests, it helps to queue them based on the type of request. So it's easy to serve and reduce the loading time from the application layer.
- An application gateway is useful when it can identify the type of details the user is requesting.
- I think, the user interface can be little better.
- Experience on deployment, it should have some good tutorials
February 08, 2022
Azure App Gateway
We were using the Azure application gateway for routing traffic to a specific region. In that case, it was very helpful
- Routing to specific region
- Load balancing
- Security
- Security
- logging
- More detailed logs
September 15, 2021
Right Solution as Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy
This is a good choice we have made for the new suite of cloud applications which has modern architecture and is highly available. Azure Application Gateway is used as a reverse proxy for multiple web resources. This enables us to load balance and route traffic to appropriate web services and various web resources.
- Easy to set up routing rules
- Redundancy with multiple Azure zones and regions
- Ease provisioning with scripts and APIs
- Live examples in the Azure documentation
- Application Gateway UI Blade in Azure Portal can be streamlined
- Have more advanced feature set as WAF (Web Application Firewall)
August 13, 2021
Full throttle LB
We use Azure Application Gateway for some global internal applications. One of the strong points is the ability to do fast provisioning and configuration update time. Other useful and interesting features are autoscaling capabilities, zone redundancy, and the ability to use an endpoint address which does not change over it's lifecycle. This is one of the best web traffic load balancers in the market.
- Fast setup and configuration update
- Zone redundancy
- Autoscaling
- Header rewrite
- Configuration wizard
- Testing capabilities
- Troubleshooting
Our company uses Azure Application Gateway in all parts of the company which build and deploy infrastructure into the public cloud. In the business we are in, highly available (HA) applications are the only types of applications that we deploy, and any failure in availability usually is heard in the news later on. Azure Application Gateway ensures availability and scalability under surprising loads our business also faces during peak hours and e.g. specific events.
- Automatic scaling of the target application
- Health monitoring
- Load balancing between multiple sites
- Providing manageability via an API
- HTTP header and URL rewrites
- Advanced networking/routing
- Multi-tenancy support
February 19, 2020
Efficient Load Balancer
Azure Application Gateway gives you application-level routing and load-balancing services that let you build a scalable and highly-available web front end in Azure.
- Easy integration with Load Balancer and Azure Scale Set to provide a full solution for traffic management.
- With rich routing rule, we could use one Application Gateway as the central point for all internal applications to expose to the external network.
- The ease of setting up a connection to the on-premises sql server to any of the Azure cloud data solutions. One can easily stand up new virtual machines and then create a separate Application Gateway to work with each of the Azure solutions like Azure Data factory or Azure Machine Learning.
- Also, we can schedule the jobs to be run at a particular time and also on-demand so we would always have the data whenever we will need it.