What is Azure Application Gateway?
Azure Application Gateway is a robust web traffic load balancer that enables advanced management and optimization of traffic to your web applications. It provides a scalable and highly-available web front end solution in Azure, empowered by application-level routing and load balancing services. This versatile tool offers a diverse range of features, including autoscaling, SSL offloading, and other advanced capabilities, all designed to enhance the performance and security of your web applications. Azure Application Gateway is a powerful component in the Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy category, enabling businesses to efficiently manage and optimize their web-based services
Highlights
- Application-level routing and load balancing services for building scalable and highly-available web front ends
- Autoscaling capabilities to dynamically adjust resources based on traffic demands
- SSL offloading to offload the compute-intensive SSL/TLS termination from your web servers
- Advanced features to optimize the performance and security of your web applications
Features
Management through Azure APIs
Centralized SSL offload and SSL policy
Customizable layer 7 load-balancing solution
Integrated web application firewall