Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway is a Layer 7 (application layer) load balancer provided as a managed service within Microsoft Azure. It enables customers to manage, scale, and secure web traffic to their applications, offering features like SSL termination, URL-based routing, and an integrated Web…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2015
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Application Gateway was created to provide a native, managed Layer 7 load balancing solution for web applications hosted on Azure. It addressed the need for advanced traffic management features like SSL termination, session affinity, URL-based routing, and integrated web application security (WAF) that were not available with the simpler Layer 4 Azure Load Balancer or required complex, self-managed third-party appliances.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure
Related technologies
Notable users
- Companies adopting microservices architectures on Azure.
- Any enterprise or organization hosting web applications on Microsoft Azure that requires advanced traffic management, security, and scalability.