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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| 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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| 10/20/2025 |
Azure Application
Gateway introduces two new PowerShell scripts to simplify migration from V1
(Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2) services. As V1 SKUs’ is scheduled to retire by...
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| 9/25/2025 |
This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an...
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| 9/22/2025 |
Azure Application Gateway supports use of Server-sent events in general
availability, enabling real-time data streaming from server to client.
Server-sent events utilize server push technology on...
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| 9/15/2025 |
Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports enabling dedicated connections
from Application Gateway to backend server. By default, Application Gateway reuses the idle backend connections...
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| 9/15/2025 |
Azure
Application Gateway V2 announces general availability of customer-controlled
backend TLS validations. When the HTTPS protocol is selected in the Backend
Settings of Azure Application...
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| 8/28/2025 |
Introduction:
Many customers run multiple Teamcenter-SPDM solutions across the enterprise, mixing multiple instances, multiple ISV vendors, and hybrid cloud/on-prem implementations. This...
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| 8/26/2025 |
Announcing the public preview of custom block response code and body for WAF integrated with Application Gateway.Azure WAF integrated with Application Gateway now supports customizable response...
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| 8/26/2025 |
Azure CNI Overlay with Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC is now generally available.Azure CNI Overlay enables AKS clusters to use pod IPs from a separate CIDR, conserving VNet IP space...
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| 8/21/2025 |
Azure Application Gateway now
supports MaxSurge, enabling new instances to be provisioned during rolling
upgrades without taking existing ones offline. This allows customers to
transition to...
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| 8/8/2025 |
Application Gateway v2 is announcing general availability of Private Application Gateway, which is a collection of new capabilities to the Application Gateway v2 SKU to further enhance control...
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| 8/6/2025 |
Application Gateway for Containers now
supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy in public preview. Using WAF’s
Default Ruleset, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) administrators and...
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| 8/6/2025 |
Welcome to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025! We’re thrilled to join this year’s event in Hyderabad as a Gold sponsor, where we’ll be highlighting the newest innovations in Azure and Azure...
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| 7/30/2025 |
Architecture
Ansys Minerva baseline architecture has four distributed tiers (client, web, enterprise, and resource) in a single Azure availability zone. Each tier aligns to function and...
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| 7/22/2025 |
Application Gateway for Containers,
Azure’s application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management
solution for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster, now supports...
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| 6/20/2025 |
Azure
Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
has reached general availability. This integration supports both Azure
Front Door WAF and Azure Application...
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| 5/30/2025 |
Introduction
Azure Container Apps provides a serverless platform for running containers at scale, and one of the big benefits is that you can easily scale workloads to zero when they are not...
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| 5/28/2025 |
Azure Application Gateway supports use of Server-sent
events in preview, enabling real-time data streaming from server to client. Server-sent
events utilize server push technology on a persistent...
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| 5/19/2025 |
Standard v2 was announced in general availability on April 1st, 2024.
Customers can now configure an inbound private endpoint for their API Management Standard v2 instance to allow clients in...
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