Azure Application Gateway - Highlights
Application Gateway operates as an application delivery controller (ADC) as a service and offers features like: * Autoscaling is useful for workloads with variable traffic. Application Gateway's fixed capacity mode is useful for scenarios with consistent and predictable workloads. * Layer 7 routing capabilities including cookie-based session affinity, round-robin load distribution, URL path/content-based routing, ability to host multiple websites. * Web application firewall (WAF) * Zone redundancy * Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) termination (not a best practice) and end-to-end SSL * Custom error pages * HTTP to HTTPS Redirection Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer , which means it works with web traffic only (HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, HTTP/2) unlike a Load Balancer which load balances traffic at layer 4 (TCP/UDP). Application gateway supports hosting up to 20 websites behind a single gateway that could all be protected against web attacks w...