Azure Application Gateway

I have been using Azure Application Gateway to provide a security appliance for my Azure App Service applications by utilizing TLS certificates. Also application gateway has been used in conjunction with Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect the organization against the known OWASP web application vulnerabilities. Azure Application Gateway has provided a way to isolate the security management team from the application and software development team and delegate only the necessary permissions to each team.

• Application Gateway v2 has significantly improved the performance of applications and the end-user satisfaction, thus bringing more end users and customers into our infrastructure.
• Application Gateway v2 has significantly improved the overall security of our backend .NET apps by introducing TLS end-to-end encryption and OWASP rules via the WAF service.
• Business departments have reported a 20% increase in ROI over the last 6 months.

Azure App Configuration, Azure Database Migration Service, Microsoft Azure IoT Central, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, Microsoft Azure Key Vault

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
• URL based routing
• LB

• No negative impact
• Positive impact - save cost on infrastructure

Azure Firewall, Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Automatic scaling
• Health monitoring
• Routing by URL

• Ability to serve more customers
• Being able to know that service is Highly Available (HA)
• Automated scaling ensures efficient use of resources from public cloud

HAProxy

Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Backup

We were using the Azure application gateway for routing traffic to a specific region. In that case, it was very helpful

• Load Balancing
• Region specific
• Best for web application

• ROI was improved
• Users were happy as latency was reduced
• Average time was reduced

AWS Auto Scaling, Azure API Management, Azure Backup

• WAF feature replicates the firewall
• Able to report and take action on alerts
• Low-level maintenance required

• Cost effective
• Low maintenance
• Scalability

Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework)