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

4 months

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KASTURIKA B.

DevOps Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/4/2021

"Azure App Gateway"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

The best part I liked about it was the routing of an HTTP request based on the URI, which made it easier for me to make routing calls to different APIs. One more thing that I liked about it was the more straightforward integration with other endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

The things I disliked about app gateway were I felt the price was on a higher side, there should be more data packet filtering options available on the app gateway level. Logging needs to be more refined for the app gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/31/2021

"Challenges faced while using Azure Application Gateways"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

re-uploading root certificate to an existing Application Gateway doesn't undergo any downtime, and hence the best part, in my view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

1) Moving your Application Gateway from SKU tier standard to SKU tier standard_v2 or vice versa needs downtime as Azure won't allow you to do this if the subnet used for both are the same.

2) If using Application Gateway (SKU tier standard_v2), it becomes mandatory to use a static Private IP, and I can't create the Private IP's dynamically using terraform

3) If using Application Gateway (SKU tier standard_v2), it becomes mandatory to use a Public IP even if I do not want to use the same and want to communicate to the other application internally via Private IP.

Public IP sits without any listener associated with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abbas H.

DevOps Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/18/2021

"It's still in testing mode. I used it because I need to have a load-balancer over VM scale sets."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

It's good to use for load balancing, and you will get rid of your webserver. I also liked the logs monitoring and the metrics collected. The redirection of http to https is easy to be applied. It has also many features like TLS/SSL termination, routing decisions based on URI path, and WAF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

It was all great except for Websockets. The WebSocket was not returning data, but the application established the connection. I was unable to discover why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

If you are working with WebSockets, make sure that it's working fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have a spring boot application that has an embedded tomcat server. The application is exposed through a public URL by Nginx. I tried to remove this layer (Nginx) of proxying to have a more reliable connection from external clients accessing my application. I need to deploy VM scale sets, so I decided to use the Azure GW to route traffic between servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dima K.

System Administrator and DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/6/2021

"We use Azure Application Gateway to Secure Access to our Production Environment"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Provides load balancing for the Layer 7 traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

The configuration is very specific right now and needs to be much more flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

My advice is to consider using the application gateway if you have a need to secure your application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The solution is easy to set up and doesn't require maintenance. Provides WAF, load balancing and routing rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prasanna K.

Developer and Site Contributor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2021

"Azure Load balancer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

It really helps us to manage incoming traffic and evenly distribute the traffics. Also, the configuration is simple to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

I really dont think, there is much of disadvantages. but, if the interface can help us to demonstrate how things logically happens may be in gif or small video instead of just a static image, it will be really helpful for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Best in the market for load balancing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For us, we have many traffic request that hit for multiple content types like images/videos/application request. each type of request require high availability, with azure application gateway that helps us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 8/4/2021

"Implementation of Application Gateway and SSL mapping"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

We have implemented the App Gateway in our production and stage environment for web app UI and web app API for load balancing and SSL certificate binding. After implementation, it works as per expectation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Not found any issue with Application Gateway as of now, as it's working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Of course, yes, it's a beneficial azure service since it's very flexible to use and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our business requirement was to implement the load balancing for the App Service, which is in the same region, and Application Gateway was the perfect solution to meet the need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/24/2021

"I would like to recommend because Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Azure Application Gateway can do URL-based routing and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

it is difficult to understand so the user-interface needs to be improved. It does not have the flexibility for using public IPs in version 2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure Application Gateway probes backend servers to check their health status and to check whether they're ready to serve requests. Users can also create custom probes to mention the host name, the path to be probed, and the status codes to be accepted as Healthy. In each case, if the backend server doesn't respond successfully, Application Gateway marks the server as Unhealthy and stops forwarding requests to the server. After the server starts responding successfully, Application Gateway resumes forwarding the requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad A.

MANAGER IT (HOD)

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/16/2021

"Azure Application Gateway"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Azure Scale Set to provide a complete solution for traffic management and easy to do the integration with Load Balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

We can schedule the jobs to be run at a particular time and on-demand always to have the data whenever we need it. No multi-tenancy support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Easy to Implement, configure, and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were looking excellent load balancer for our multi-tenant cloud application, and it turned out Azure Application gateway is one of the best solutions available. It's a fantastic and easy-to-use solution that is highly scalable, and It can be integrated with different tools such as Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jayesh P.

Network Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 8/1/2021

"Very Good Load Balancer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Load Balancing of multiple sites

Health Status Monitoring

Management through API

Auto-scaling of the application when the load is high Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

Interface needs to improve somewhat because for first-time users it's difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

This is a good solution for the load balancing of web applications and services. But one should get proper knowledge and experience of this application and Azure management console. It's good to have Azure certification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used this to check traffic coming to our application from the internet and to protect our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/8/2021

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"It is a web traffic load balancer that manages traffic to of web applications"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Application Gateway?

Providing manageability via an API and Automatic scaling of the target application, health monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Application Gateway?

HTTP header and URL rewrites And the pricing is bit high, it needs an improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Application Gateway:

Give it a try to application gateway its acts as a firewall and web traffic load balancer, auto scaling. It has everything as it requires Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using azure application gateway as a web traffic load balancer and it has many advantages as auto scaling, routing rules and etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.