Azure Application Gateway

Score8.5 out of 10

64 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Azure Application Gateway are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

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.

Reviews

9 Reviews

Azure Application Gateway

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

TLS bridging (end-to-end TLS encryption)
TLS offloading
Web Application Firewall with OWASP Web Application security rules
Scalability and performance

Cons

More cost-effective pricing plans are welcome for the future, especially for WAF
Ability to automate the TLS certificate renewal procedure
Ability to manage non-HTTP traffic

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Application Gateway is ideal for protecting web-based applications, especially those running on Azure App Service, Azure Container services or Azure IaaS Virtual Machines. Application Gateway is not well suited for non-HTTP workloads, even though it has limited support for TCP-based custom ports and act as a TCP reverse proxy. We are currently waiting on the TCP proxy feature of App Gateway to complete the Preview phase.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

Azure Application Gateway is the best for Securing and protection the web application.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Load Balancing
Web Application Firewall Protection
Provide Scalability

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited : For those who want to hosting multiple web application on the same domain and for securing the web applications from common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and all. Less Appropriate : For low traffic and static web application, Non Http and HTTPS traffic.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Azure Application Gateway at a Glance

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

WAF
Application layer LB
SSL termination

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

The best practice for a cloud environment is to use the tools provided by the cloud provider. That's why for Azure cloud, Azure Application Gateway is the most cost-effective solution that you can use. You can use a single Azure Application Gateway instance for load balancing WAF, URL-based routing, and more.

Dima Kazavchinsky

System and DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at CyberProof (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Scale the data request as you wanted with Azure Application gateway

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

February 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

I think, the user interface can be little better.
Experience on deployment, it should have some good tutorials

Likelihood to Recommend

It won't be useful when we have only dealt with just HTTP requests. If the application has to serve users with different file types, then this is useful.

Verified User

Contributor in Research & Development (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Azure App Gateway

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros

Routing to specific region
Load balancing
Security

Cons

Security
logging
More detailed logs

Likelihood to Recommend

I would strongly recommend the Azure application gateway

Prabhat Mishra

Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at LeadSchool (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Right Solution as Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Easy to set up routing rules
Redundancy with multiple Azure zones and regions
Ease provisioning with scripts and APIs

Cons

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)

Likelihood to Recommend

It's an appropriate solution for Azure Cloud and integrates well with AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service. This in turn makes the default solution for any modern containerized and Kubernetes Orchestrated application. The good support for SSL/TLS and integration with Azure Key Vault makes it useful to comply with security guidelines.

Hajira Khan

Senior Project Manager | Technical Project Manager in Engineering at Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Full throttle LB

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Fast setup and configuration update
Zone redundancy
Autoscaling
Header rewrite

Cons

Configuration wizard
Testing capabilities
Troubleshooting

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Application Gateway is basically a web traffic load balancer well suited in enterprise environments that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Is a really good solution for your traffic management. It is also easy to integrate with modern deployment architectures like containers and Kubernetes and very cost effective. There needs to be more training material available for teams to learn more about this service.

Marius Andrei Zamfirescu

Technology Architect in Information Technology at BearingPoint (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Everything in one package for your load-balancing needs

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Automatic scaling of the target application
Health monitoring
Load balancing between multiple sites
Providing manageability via an API

Cons

HTTP header and URL rewrites
Advanced networking/routing
Multi-tenancy support

Likelihood to Recommend

For building scalable and highly available applications, Azure Application Gateway does most of the job on behalf of you; automatically load-balancing traffic from a number of users to a number of back-end servers. This ensure scalability and availability. The in-built security is great as can be expected from Microsoft, and user has a variety of tools for monitoring the health of the load-balancing function as well as the health of back end servers behind it.

Janne Mikola

Technical Product Manager in Product Management at Telia Company AB (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Efficient Load Balancer

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.