Microsoft Application Gateway Hours
Microsoft Application Gateway Hours provides essential capacity for managing and optimizing your application traffic, ensuring high availability and performance for your business-critical services.
- Scalable Capacity: Access on-demand hours to handle fluctuating application traffic demands.
- Performance Optimization: Ensure your applications are delivered efficiently and reliably to end-users.
- Security Enhancement: Utilize gateway features to protect your applications from common web threats.
- Compliance Support: Maintain regulatory compliance by managing application access and traffic patterns.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Microsoft Application Gateway Hours is a consumption-based licensing model that provides the necessary capacity for Azure Application Gateway, a managed service that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It allows for load balancing, Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, and SSL termination, ensuring your applications are secure, performant, and highly available.
This service is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who are deploying or managing web applications on Azure. It fits into an organization's cloud infrastructure, providing a critical component for application delivery and security without requiring the management of underlying hardware.
- Traffic Management: Distribute incoming traffic across multiple web servers for improved responsiveness and availability.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protect your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.
- SSL/TLS Termination: Offload SSL/TLS decryption from your web servers to improve their performance.
- Cookie-based Session Affinity: Ensure requests from a specific user are directed to the same backend server.
- URL-Based Content Routing: Route traffic to specific backend pools based on the request URL.
Empower your business with scalable and secure application delivery on Azure, managed efficiently for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Enables
Enable Scalable Web Application Delivery
Enable teams to automatically scale their application delivery capacity based on real-time traffic demands. Streamline the process of handling peak loads without manual intervention, ensuring consistent user experience.
cloud-native applications, microservices architecture, API gateway deployments, web application hosting
Enhance Application Security Posture
Automate the protection of web applications against common threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting with integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. Maintain compliance with security standards by continuously monitoring and blocking malicious traffic.
public-facing web services, sensitive data applications, compliance-driven environments, multi-tier application architectures
Optimize Application Performance and Availability
Support high availability by distributing traffic across multiple instances of your web applications, preventing single points of failure. Streamline SSL/TLS termination to reduce the processing load on your backend servers, improving overall application responsiveness.
mission-critical applications, customer-facing portals, e-commerce platforms, distributed application systems
Key Features
Load Balancing
Distributes traffic across healthy backend instances, maximizing throughput and minimizing response times.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities, enhancing security and compliance.
SSL/TLS Termination
Offloads SSL/TLS processing from web servers, improving their performance and simplifying certificate management.
Cookie-based Session Affinity
Ensures user requests are consistently directed to the same backend server, maintaining session state.
URL-Based Content Routing
Allows flexible routing of requests to different backend pools based on the request URL, enabling complex application architectures.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services require robust security and high availability to protect sensitive data and maintain customer trust, aligning with Application Gateway's WAF and load balancing capabilities.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, making secure application delivery and traffic management essential for patient portals and data systems.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses rely on e-commerce platforms and booking systems that demand high availability and performance, especially during peak seasons, to ensure seamless customer transactions.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information, necessitating secure, reliable access to case management systems and client portals.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Application Gateway Hours?
Microsoft Application Gateway Hours is a consumption-based offering that provides the metered capacity for Azure Application Gateway. It allows you to pay for the actual usage of the service's features, such as load balancing and Web Application Firewall.
How does this licensing model benefit my business?
This model offers cost efficiency by allowing you to scale your application delivery resources up or down based on demand. It ensures you only pay for what you use, providing flexibility and predictability for your cloud spending.
What kind of applications can I protect with this service?
You can protect any web application hosted on Azure, including customer-facing portals, e-commerce sites, internal business applications, and APIs. The Web Application Firewall component offers protection against common web threats.
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.