Application Gateway
Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure.
OVERVIEW
Secure, scale, and optimize your web applications
- Protect your applications from common web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Monitor your web applications using custom rules and rule groups to suit your requirements and eliminate false positives.
- Strong encryption from front end to back end helps to secure your data.
- Scale your web application with SSL offload, and centralize SSL certificate management to reduce encryption and decryption overhead on your servers.
- Get application-level load-balancing services and routing to build a scalable and highly available web front end in Azure. Autoscaling offers elasticity by automatically scaling Application Gateway instances based on your web application traffic load.
- Application Gateway is integrated with several Azure services. Azure Traffic Manager supports multiple-region redirection, automatic failover, and zero-downtime maintenance. Use Azure Virtual Machines, virtual machine scale sets, or the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service in your back-end pools. Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center provide centralized monitoring and alerting, and an application health dashboard. Key Vault offers central management and automatic renewal of SSL certificates.
- Route traffic to back-end server pools with URL path-based routing, and to multiple web applications using host header-based routing.
- Orchestrate container-based workloads at massive scale with modern application load balancing functionality and seamless configuration through Gateway API and Ingress spec for Kubernetes based workloads.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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