Azure Application Gateway Insights

What is Azure Application Gateway?

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It provides features such as SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, URL-based routing, and a web application firewall (WAF) to protect your applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities. It is commonly used to improve the scalability, availability, and security of web applications.

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What other technologies are related to Azure Application Gateway?

Azure Application Gateway Competitor Technologies

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer provides basic load balancing capabilities at layer 4, which can be an alternative to Application Gateway's layer 7 features for some scenarios.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 23% (259) of relevant job posts

Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry-point that provides similar functionality to Application Gateway but at a global scale, including WAF, caching and routing.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 16% (194) of relevant job posts

Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager provides global DNS-based traffic routing, offering alternative global routing compared to Azure Front Door (which includes Application Gateway-like features). It's a competitor for global routing scenarios.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 20% (77) of relevant job posts

Azure Application Gateway Complementary Technologies

Azure VPN Gateway

Azure VPN Gateway provides secure connectivity to on-premises networks, which can be used in conjunction with Application Gateway to expose applications securely.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 43% (103) of relevant job posts

Azure Private Link

Azure Private Link provides private connectivity to Azure services. This can be used to privately connect Application Gateway to backend services, increasing security.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 33% (67) of relevant job posts

Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall provides network-level security, complementing Application Gateway's web application firewall (WAF) by providing broader network protection.

mentioned alongside Azure Application Gateway in 7% (207) of relevant job posts