Azure Application Gateway Reviews and Ratings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

I would strongly recommend the Azure application gateway

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div><p>The following are the few features that I like the most about Azure Application Gateway:</p><p>- Easy to use, configure, and implement.</p><p>- It can be integrated with different tools such as Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).</p><p>- Highly scalable</p><p>

</p></div><div><p>The following are the few features I like the least about this product:</p><p>- User Documentation can be improved</p><p>- Dashboard to demonstrate different metrics can be more detailed.</p></div>