Azure Application Gateway
August 08, 2025

Azure Application Gateway

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Azure Application Gateway

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
  • Application Gateway v2 has significantly improved the performance of applications and the end-user satisfaction, thus bringing more end users and customers into our infrastructure.
  • Application Gateway v2 has significantly improved the overall security of our backend .NET apps by introducing TLS end-to-end encryption and OWASP rules via the WAF service.
  • Business departments have reported a 20% increase in ROI over the last 6 months.
Most of the Application Gateway's features and services can be managed and re-configured via either the Azure Portal GUI or via the Azure Cloud Shell, thus allowing both CLI modes, i.e. Azure CLI (Bash) and Azure Powershell. The v2 version of Application Gateway has significantly improved performance during initial configuration or during re-configuration changes, thus making it much more usable for IT admins, as compared to v1.

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

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.

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