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

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/application-gateway/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/application-gateway/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/application-gateway/
Newsfeed: RSS

Getting Started

  1. 12/16/2022, Learning Module
    This module explains what Azure Application Gateway does, how it works, and when you should choose to use Application Gateway as a solution to meet your organization's needs.

News

Date News
2/27/2023
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions.
2/8/2023
Azure Application Gateway now supports mTLS and OCSP.
1/25/2023
  Azure Static Web Apps allows you to easily host your web apps globally, with built-in support for APIs, staging environments and more. With the introduction of the API integration feature for...
11/15/2022
Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
11/15/2022
Azure's regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall...
7/19/2022
Use TLS 1.3 in Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
6/20/2022
The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation. Media...
6/13/2022
Learn how private link support for Application Gateway drives more secured network access.
6/1/2022
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale...