Name: Azure Application Gateway
Rating: 7.9 (58 reviews)
Author: Microsoft

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Efficient Load Balancing: Users have appreciated the Load Balancing feature for efficiently managing high volumes of data requests and reducing loading times from the application layer. This capability ensures a smooth user experience even during peak traffic periods.

Enhanced Security with Web Application Firewall Protection: Some users found the Web Application Firewall Protection beneficial in enhancing security and identifying the type of details users were requesting. This robust security measure instills confidence in users regarding their data protection.

Valuable Autoscaling Capabilities: Customers highlighted the fast setup and configuration update process, zone redundancy, and autoscaling capabilities as valuable features that enhance manageability. The automatic scaling of applications based on demand provides flexibility and efficiency for handling varying workloads effectively.

Need for Intuitive Interfaces and Simplified Configuration Processes: Users have expressed a desire for more user-friendly interfaces that are intuitive to navigate and simplified configuration processes, making it easier for users to set up and manage the system efficiently.

Lack of Annotations for WAF Rules: Reviewers have found it challenging to manage the system effectively due to the absence of annotations provided for Web Application Firewall rules, which hinders their ability to make informed decisions about security configurations.

Desire for Advanced Features in Web Application Firewall Functionality: Some users have recommended incorporating advanced features, particularly focusing on enhancing the functionality of the Web Application Firewall to provide more robust security capabilities.

Microsoft's Azure Application Gateway is a platform-managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller as a service with integrated web application firewall.

Microsoft's Azure Load Balancer provides built-in load balancing for cloud services and virtual machines, so the user can create highly-available and scalable applications in minutes.

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Azure Application Gateway

Application delivery controllers (ADC) are devices housed in a data center between firewalls and application servers, existing basically for the purpose of application acceleration, reducing load on websites and performing load balancing, as well as other features (SSL offload, proxy/reverse proxy, a firewall for web applications, and more). They are part of an application delivery network (ADN), along with WAN optimization controllers (WOCs).

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We use Azure Application Gateway to distribute the incoming traffic to multiple servers for optimal performance and load balancing.
Also for managing and securing our web applications.
Business Problems Addressed : It helps us from preventing the single server from becoming overwhelmed and ensure smooth operation during peak hours without any issue.

Load Balancing
Web Application Firewall Protection
Provide Scalability

Need more Intuitive interfaces and simplified configuration
Better 3rd party integration
Cost optimization is lil bit tricky

Positive : Improved performance and scalability
Positive : Better and enhanced Security
Positive : Efficiency
Negative: Cost
Negative: More resources to manage.

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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.

There is no annotations for WAF rules, makes it hard to manage

No negative impact
Positive impact - save cost on infrastructure

Azure Firewall, Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Cost effective
Low maintenance
Scalability

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Azure Application Gateway

Overview

What is Azure Application Gateway?