Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions – Security – Application Gateway

It is good to gain enough traffic on your website, which means that you have got a good amount of potential customers and thus, the chances of conversion would surely increase! However, with Azure cloud solution, you can ensure that your load on the website remains balanced. The Application Gateway is an innovative tool that serves as a web traffic load balancer thereby assisting you to manage traffic to the web applications. Azure Web application firewall, commonly known as WAF is known for offering a centralized protection that would enable you to secure your web apps. It is known for offering real security to your network traffic. This backdrop and protection factor plays an extremely critical role when it comes to restrict suspicious users over the internet.

In today’s times, when cyber security has increased so rapidly, it is important to ensure that you are inspecting the inbound web traffic properly so as to block the attacks. This is deliberately important to ensure that you are able to block the attacks due to the SQL injections, malware uploads, DDoS attacks, cross-site scripting and more. It even serves as an application delivery controller, commonly abbreviated as the ADC that intends to manage the traffic effectively. It is typically a load balancing solution which functions at the Layer 7 and balances the web traffic. It also makes decisions based on the HTTP attributes including host readers and the URI path. This tool is very much similar to the AWS application gateway wherein you can route the traffic based on the incoming URL.

What is so special about Azure Application Gateway?

With Azure Application Gateway, you may easily choose to route your traffic based on the incoming URL. This means that you will be eligible at ease to drive your images and similar contents to a server, while the videos to another server that is specially optimize for the same. A lot of merchants, suppliers and enterprises across the world access different web applications to perform various kinds of online credit payment systems, which consists of different steps such as processing the transaction, verification and further maintaining a record of the same. However, with this cloud solution, things have become simpler than ever! It does the activities automatically wherein they received an advanced and secure payment platform with all the necessary features added to the same. It has even reduced the maintenance costs, while increasing the performance. It has even helped the users to avail zero downtime with no data loss.

Advantages of Azure Application Gateway

The Azure cloud solution enables the users to have a secure app gateway that is compliant and safe at the same time. It is definitely a win-win situation for all the customers as well as for the enterprises. Here are the few advantages of the tool listed below: 

  • 99.95% uptime for service level agreement
  • A scalable and highly available app to control your delivery
  • Provision for a centralized SSL offload
  • A customizable layer with 7 load balancing feature
  • An integrated web application firewall
  • Support for the cookie based session affinity
  • Managed via Azure APIs
  • A support system for the private, public and hybrid websites
  • A protection from the common web vulnerabilities

Bottom line:

The Azure Application Gateway features multiple site hosting provisions, alongside autoscaling and zone redundancy. It also comprises of web application firewall, and URL based routing, static VIP and a proper inspection theory of your inbound traffic.

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