Microsoft BASIC APPLICATION GATEWAY (LARGE) HOURS
Microsoft Application Gateway hours provide essential capacity for managing and scaling your web application traffic in the US East 2 region, ensuring reliable performance and security for your business.
- Scalable Capacity: Access to Application Gateway resources to handle fluctuating web traffic demands.
- Regional Availability: Dedicated hours for deployment within the US East 2 Azure region.
- Performance Optimization: Ensures your web applications remain responsive and accessible to users.
- Security Enhancement: Supports advanced security features for protecting your web applications.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription provides hourly capacity for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (Large) in the US East 2 region. It enables businesses to deploy and manage web applications with enhanced security, load balancing, and traffic management capabilities.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize these hours to ensure their critical web-facing applications are available, secure, and performant. This service is integral for organizations running their own websites, customer portals, or internal web services on Azure.
- Application Delivery: Provides load balancing and intelligent traffic distribution to web applications.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Offers protection against common web exploits and vulnerabilities.
- SSL Termination: Offloads SSL encryption and decryption to improve application performance.
- URL-Based Routing: Directs traffic to specific backend pools based on request URLs.
- Session Affinity: Maintains user session consistency by directing requests from the same user to the same backend server.
This Azure Application Gateway capacity is ideal for businesses seeking enterprise-grade web application management without the overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Web Application Access
Enable teams to provide secure and reliable access to their public-facing web applications. This ensures that customer portals and e-commerce sites are always available and protected from common web attacks.
Organizations hosting customer-facing websites, businesses with online transaction platforms, companies managing internal web-based applications, teams requiring robust security for web services.
Streamline Application Traffic Management
Streamline the distribution of incoming web traffic across multiple backend servers. This optimizes application performance and ensures high availability by preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.
Businesses with multiple web servers, teams managing microservices architectures, organizations requiring intelligent routing for web requests, companies with fluctuating user traffic.
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of security policies for web applications through integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. This protects against OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and other common threats.
Companies operating in regulated industries, organizations handling sensitive customer data, businesses needing to meet compliance standards, teams focused on proactive threat mitigation.
Key Features
Load Balancing
Distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend instances to ensure high availability and responsiveness.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities, enhancing security posture.
SSL Termination
Improves application performance by handling SSL/TLS encryption and decryption, reducing load on backend servers.
URL-Based Routing
Directs traffic to specific backend pools based on request URLs, enabling flexible application architectures.
Session Affinity
Ensures that requests from the same user are consistently directed to the same backend server, maintaining session state.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security for customer portals and transaction processing, making Application Gateway's load balancing and WAF features critical for compliance and user trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need to ensure secure and reliable access to patient portals and electronic health record systems, adhering to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely on e-commerce platforms and booking systems that demand high performance and availability, especially during peak seasons, to maximize sales and customer satisfaction.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often host public-facing services and internal applications that require secure, scalable, and highly available access for citizens and employees, meeting stringent security mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Azure Application Gateway?
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It provides advanced routing capabilities and security features.
What does 'LARGE' refer to in the product title?
The 'LARGE' designation typically refers to the SKU or tier of the Application Gateway, indicating a higher capacity for throughput and features compared to smaller tiers.
How are Application Gateway hours billed?
These hours are billed on a subscription basis, meaning you pay for the capacity and uptime of the Application Gateway over a defined period, typically monthly.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.