Azure Application Gateway Reviews & Product Details

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Unlike traditional load balancers that operate at the transport layer (Layer 4), Application Gateway operates at the application layer (Layer 7), allowing it to make routing decisions based on attributes such as URL paths and host headers. This capability provides more control over how traffic is distributed to your applications, enhancing both performance and security. Key Features and Functionality: - Layer 7 Load Balancing: Routes traffic based on HTTP request attributes, enabling more precise control over traffic distribution. - Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects applications from common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting by monitoring and filtering HTTP requests. - SSL/TLS Termination: Offloads SSL/TLS processing to the gateway, reducing the encryption and decryption overhead on backend servers. - Autoscaling: Automatically adjusts the number of gateway instances based on traffic load, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. - Zone Redundancy: Distributes instances across multiple availability zones, enhancing resilience and availability. - URL Path-Based Routing: Directs requests to backend pools based on URL paths, allowing for efficient resource utilization. - Host Header-Based Routing: Routes traffic to different backend pools based on the host header, facilitating multi-site hosting. - Integration with Azure Services: Seamlessly integrates with Azure Traffic Manager for global load balancing and Azure Monitor for centralized monitoring and alerting. Primary Value and User Solutions: Azure Application Gateway provides a scalable and highly available solution for managing web application traffic. By operating at the application layer, it offers intelligent routing capabilities that enhance application performance and reliability. The integrated Web Application Firewall ensures robust security against common web threats, while features like SSL/TLS termination and autoscaling optimize resource utilization and reduce operational overhead. This comprehensive set of features addresses the needs of organizations seeking to build secure, scalable, and efficient web front ends in Azure.

Seller

Microsoft

Discussions

Azure Application Gateway Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

12 months

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Average based on 161 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

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Jaba Sangeetha J.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/21/2023

"Azure"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Azure application gateway is more easy and compatible. Highly recommend Azure application gateway. In our project, we are using Azure application gateway. Azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Azure application gateway is very good to use so there is nothing to specify about the dislike of Azure application gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antonio D.

Lead Product Engineer

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 10/11/2022

"The Gateway you didn't know you needed"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

I love the scalability and flexibility given to me when using Application Gateway. It's powerful, works as a layer 7 load balancer and provides me everything I'd need to offload SSL and load balancing to a cloud service and let's me focus on writing apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

The only downside I'd say there was for me when using Application Gateway, is you need to 100% have a domain name setup in advance and ready to use. Most features don't play well with just an IP and you can't use the azurewebsites domain either which makes sense. If you don't have a domain, use Azure FrontDoor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Application Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Application Gateway is solving a complex issue that I used to solve using manually configured reverse proxies and load balancers that needed to be setup and maintained and then ended up also becoming a single point of failure under extreme load. Figuring out how to scale a load balancer is no trivial task. This solves most of that worry for me, off loads SSL and even provides me a web application firewall. (WAF) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nitin V.

Associate Staff Engineer - DevOps

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/15/2023

"easy to configure and use"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

can be used easily as an ingress controller with aks cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

azure portal dashboard for this can be improved and also in aks cluster this ingress controller comes at a high cost rather than a nginx ingress controller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranjit Kumar M.

Lead Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 7/27/2023

"Good api gateway but not the best"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Gateway security is upto date according to market standards and support is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

GUI is not user friendly. Needs improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshay Y.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 6/21/2023

"Azure Application Gateway a one stop solution for load balancer"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Its ability to route traffic based on URL path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Configuration of service is a bit tedious Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heena A.

Senior Technical Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/22/2023

"Azure administrator"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

We have shifted from on prem VMware to azure . On demand cost and scalability are the best features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

There is nothing to dislike about azure cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richa M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/20/2023

"Microsoft Azure: Unleashing the power of cloud innovation and scalability"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

the best part about azure that i love is the pricing model that they offer, I only pay when I use. also the scalability that azure offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

i have felt that the platform needs a bit of technical expertise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/20/2023

"Azure application gateway- Fantastic product"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Ease of use and an excellent responsive User interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

I have not been able to identify any as such Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 8/3/2021

"Azure application gateway review"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

WAF integration, enables to paasify web layer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Theoretically I don't see any disadvantages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anupam S.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2023

"Cloud Computing Service (Microsoft Azure)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Cloud service, API integration, Development of application and service, domain access, flexibility use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Documents are not updated with latest version when I am trying to implement Microsoft calendar events. Due to not updating documentation, I face a lot while completing the working code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.