Application Gateway
Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure
Overview
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.
Key Resources
News
| Date | News |
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| 2/23/2026 |
Announcing the public preview of Application Gateway WAF Insights. Azure Application Gateway WAF now offers WAF Insights, providing an interactive view of logs and metrics. WAF Insights enables...
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| 2/23/2026 |
Introduction
Azure Application Gateway for Containers is a managed Azure service designed to handle incoming traffic for container-based applications. It brings Layer-7 load balancing, routing,...
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| 2/20/2026 |
The Kubernetes Steering Committee has announced that the Nginx Ingress controller will be retired in March 2026. That' not far away, and once this happens Nginx Ingress will not receive any...
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| 2/20/2026 |
Modern API‑driven applications demand global reach, high availability, and predictable latency. Azure provides two complementary services that help achieve this: Azure API Management (APIM) as...
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| 2/9/2026 |
We're announcing public preview of an AKS managed add-on that simplifies the deployment and lifecycle management of Application Gateway for Containers and its ALB Controller. With the managed AKS...
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| 2/3/2026 |
Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) v2 now supports additional rate‑limiting GroupBy options based on the X‑Forwarded‑For (XFF) HTTP header. This enables customers running...
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| 2/3/2026 |
Introduction
Cloud-native applications often support critical business functions and are expected to stay available even when parts of the platform fail. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) already...
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| 2/3/2026 |
A large enterprise customer adopting AI at scale typically needs three non‑negotiables in its AI foundation:
End‑to‑end tenant isolation across network, identity, compute, and data
Secure,...
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| 2/2/2026 |
Announcing the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway.The Azure-managed DRS provides active protection against common web...
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| 1/28/2026 |
If you operate Kubernetes at scale, you've felt it: "Ingress YAML sprawl", annotation archaeology, and the creeping sense that your edge configuration is one upstream change away from becoming...
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| 12/9/2025 |
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2
is a US government standard that defines minimum security requirements for
cryptographic modules in information technology products and...
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| 11/19/2025 |
Azure Application Gateway has introduced general availability support
for TLS and TCP protocol termination. This enhancement enables you to load
balance and securely process non-HTTP(S) traffic...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing the public preview
of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of
application downtime, and traditional static controls...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Slow start is now
generally available as a load balancing algorithm in Application Gateway for
Containers. This feature improves stability and performance during backend
scale-up by gradually...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Application
Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through
an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south
communication between...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing the preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway — enabling authentication and token validation right at the Application gateway before traffic reaches your...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while still requiring...
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| 11/10/2025 |
Announcing Azure
Web
Application Firewall (WAF) support for Azure
Application
Gateway for Containers is now generally available. Application Gateway for Containers is the
next evolution of...
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| 10/27/2025 |
Why Security Headers Matter?
Security headers are an essential part of web application security. They help protect against common vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS),...
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| 10/22/2025 |
Let’s pick up from where we left off in the previous post — Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure - Part 1. Earlier, we explored a decision tree to help identify the most suitable Azure...
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