Right Solution as Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy
September 15, 2021

Right Solution as Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy

Hajira Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Application Gateway

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.
  • Easy to set up routing rules
  • Redundancy with multiple Azure zones and regions
  • Ease provisioning with scripts and APIs
  • 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)
  • Level 7 Routing
  • SSL/TLS Configuration
  • Scripting and API support
  • Increased Application Uptime and Customer Satisfaction
  • Compliance with security regulations
  • Productivity increase of deployment engineers

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Application Gateway go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Application Gateway again?

Yes

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.