Item: Azure Application Gateway
Rating: 8
Author: Marius Andrei Zamfirescu

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 and Cons

Fast setup and configuration update
Zone redundancy
Autoscaling
Header rewrite

Configuration wizard
Testing capabilities
Troubleshooting

Most Important Features

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

Return on Investment

Cost effective
Low maintenance
Scalability

Alternatives Considered

We used only Azure services.

Key Insights

Do you think Azure Application Gateway delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Application Gateway's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Application Gateway live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Azure Application Gateway go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Application Gateway again?

Yes

Other Software Used

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

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.

Full throttle LB

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Application Gateway