An introduction to Azure Application Gateway
In 2015, Microsoft announced one of its coolest and important enterprise networking solutions in Azure, named Azure Application Gateway, and ever since then, this service has witnessed many enhancements based on customers' feedback.
Azure Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancing service for applications. This service comes with many features for customers using web applications, such as SSL and CPU offloading. Also, it provides a web application firewall (WAF) included in it that provides protection for the web applications and prevention of malicious attacks.
Why Azure Application Gateway?
Azure Application Gateway has many features that would help you to use it in more advanced scenarios. The following are some of the most common features of Azure Application Gateway:
- HTTP/HTTPS load balancing: Azure Application Gateway provides a layer 7 round-robin load balancing for HTTP/HTTPS incoming traffic.
- SSL overhead offloading: The web servers...