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.

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Microsoft

Discussions

Azure Application Gateway Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Value at a Glance

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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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Asobo G.

Solutions Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/4/2022

"Scalability and cost efficiency"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

I like the fact that it's cost-efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Complicated to use for most starters use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

I recommend Microsoft Azure to anyone considering migrating into cloud space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure solves a lot of technological shortcomings faced by most companies. It provides servers and other tech tools on-demand to be used in development environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edwin C.

Infraestructure Technician

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 1/5/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Azure"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

In general, it is an excellent way to manage all your servers in the cloud, and it is fast and quite reliable, you avoid common failures in physical servers, in the same way, it is easy to group by projects and to give permissions as well as to deny them. Additionally, it offers several ways to manage our projects, such as creating disks, private networks, virtual machines according to the capacity we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

It is difficult to find faults I consider that the least pleasant thing is the cost issue in some things the prices are a little excessive however they manage to compensate some of this with the reservation issue if you need to have machines for example for more than a specific time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

It is important before starting to get advice and shield yourself in every way as to whether your project or company requires it, as well as to make a detailed analysis of all the costs that your migration or implementation will entail and in this way evaluate if it is necessary to make reservations. which in my opinion is an excellent option to minimize expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At the moment, we are working on the migration of some physical servers to the cloud, this to minimize impacts on physical servers and migrate everything to the cloud, all benefits in theory the datacenter that we have physical will disappear to avoid many problems this Migration has been of great help to the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gustavo G.

IT Team Leader

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/9/2022

"Very good .. But maybe something expensive"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Very strong load balance and confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

It is somewhat expensive, compared to other similar solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Searose K.

Member Of Technical Staff

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/30/2021

"Best load balancer and traffic routing solution for Azure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Ease of configuration from the Azure portal is a great feature. This is also very well integrated with the overall azure ecosystem like Azure Container Service and AKS. This enables to route traffic in a seamless fashion for new-age applications and architecture. This also provides the additional layer of security as you can monitor http headers and take routing decisions way before, thus ensuring high application performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Better integration with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform would definitely be help. Also bit of a learning curve to use with PowerShell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Implement it via IaaC solutions to automate the whole deployment. Also pay attention to SSL certificates and https traffic binding. DevOps team should also have a good knowledge of Azure and Networking to appropriately configure the gateway and ensure appropriate networking in the Kubernetes cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

OSI Layer 7 routing, based on the URL's,as we want a solution to distribute traffic appropriately. We were looking at a solution to load balance and act as a gatekeeper for multiple microservices. This has increased the overall robustness of the system and made the throughput higher. We were also looking at a solution to provide Azure Zone redundancy and a gateway which can also be an ingress controller for the AKS clusters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanskar C.

Assistant Manager - Product Engineering & Design Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2022

"Sanskar Chopra Azure review"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

It's a fully scalable cloud platform. It has open access to its framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

It can become a little complex when applied to a larger organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jilson P.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/19/2022

"Azure is very and user friendly"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Azure Devops service. Easy to configure vm and Azure application gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Nothing, but some time the server will restart without any notification Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivam N.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 6/23/2022

"Affordable and Automation"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

It's automated feature and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Sometimes page is stuck and misbehave etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sharique K.

Team Lead - DevOps | Cloud | SRE - Cloud Native Productline

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/16/2021

"Best Web Traffic Load Balancer for Azure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Seamless integration with the Azure ecosystem is the premier feature of this service and on top of is the cost is not too much. It is also easy to integrate with modern deployment architectures like containers and Kubernetes. You can chain it with security and WAF solutions to improve the overall security of the deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

There needs to be more training material available for the teams and engineers to learn more about this service. Enhanced documentation with live examples would also be an aid. At times its difficult to monitor the traffic in the gateway via Azure Monitor. Help guides should be provided to configure monitoring services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Its important to use IaaC solution to automate the provisioning of such cloud resources. Also, one should become familiar with the Azure web console and do a proper configuration of the gateway considering various scenarios like failover etc. The organization should have trained manpower, especially engineers with Azure Administration certifications to ensure proper configuration of this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Primarily we are using this solution to distribute the load between Kubernetes clusters for web applications and services. It is also being used to divert traffic in case of failure. this is a critical part of the infrastructure

It also helps to implement advanced deployment strategies such as canary deployments and rolling updates ensuring appropriate risk mitigation for new deployments. Security solutions like SSL certificate bindings and public private IP mapping is also achieved via this service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jazib H.

DevOps Engineer (Azure | AWS)

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/15/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I used Azure Application Gateway for my project"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

I like it most because it gives me the power to create serverless applications. It is hosted on Cloud server so we can scale as much we like. It is cost effective and works on pay as you go model. It is easy to understand and delivers quality and never faced any downtime with it. We have used it for production workloads and it worked well for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Documentation was a bit unclear to understand in regards to which layer should be used in Gateway to control security features. Attaching certificates was hard and tough to implement it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Take a course or go through Azure documentation to understand Azure Application Gateway, first practice it on your QA and staging environments and then start using it for production. Try to break down your monolithic applications into microservices-based applications. Also they can look for some consultant how is expert level Azure Gateway developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am creating multi-tenant applications using Azure Application Gateway. I got the ability to host my API overcloud without needing to maintain servers. Before using Azure Application Gateway we we used to host a server of which maintaince was hard and not an optimal solution at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.