Microsoft Application Gateway Hours (Medium)
Microsoft Application Gateway hours provide essential capacity for managing and scaling your web applications, ensuring consistent performance for your business operations.
- Scalable Capacity: Access on-demand compute for your Application Gateway instances, allowing you to adjust resources based on traffic.
- Performance Optimization: Ensure your web applications are delivered efficiently and reliably to end-users.
- Cost Management: Pay-as-you-go model for Application Gateway usage, aligning costs with actual consumption.
- Global Reach: Supports deployment in US Central region, catering to specific geographical needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides Microsoft Application Gateway hours, a consumption-based license for the compute resources powering your Application Gateway instances. It enables the core functionality of load balancing, web application firewalling, and SSL termination for your web applications, ensuring they are accessible and secure.
Businesses utilizing Microsoft Azure for their IT infrastructure will use these hours to manage the operational capacity of their Application Gateways. This is suitable for IT Managers and IT Professionals overseeing web application deployment and performance within SMB and mid-market organizations.
- Application Delivery: Manages traffic flow to your web applications, distributing requests across multiple instances.
- Security Features: Supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to protect against common web exploits.
- SSL Termination: Offloads SSL/TLS encryption and decryption from your web servers, improving performance.
- Session Affinity: Enables sticky sessions for applications requiring them, ensuring a user stays connected to the same server.
- URL-Based Routing: Directs traffic to different backend pools based on request URL paths.
This consumption-based model offers flexibility and cost control for businesses needing to scale their application delivery infrastructure effectively.
What This Enables
Enable Scalable Web Application Delivery
Enable teams to automatically scale their web application's capacity to meet fluctuating user demand. Streamline the distribution of incoming traffic across multiple backend servers to maintain optimal performance and availability.
cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, e-commerce platforms, SaaS applications
Secure Web Applications with WAF
Automate the protection of your web applications against common exploits and vulnerabilities using the integrated Web Application Firewall. Streamline security policy enforcement to meet compliance requirements and reduce the risk of breaches.
customer-facing web portals, internal business applications, API gateways, data-intensive applications
Optimize SSL/TLS Traffic Management
Streamline the management of SSL/TLS certificates by offloading encryption and decryption from your web servers. Enable faster response times for end-users by optimizing secure connection handling.
public-facing websites, secure internal applications, applications with high SSL traffic, compliance-sensitive data
Key Features
Application Load Balancing
Distributes incoming traffic across healthy backend instances, preventing overload and ensuring application availability.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects web applications from common web attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, enhancing security posture.
SSL/TLS Termination
Offloads SSL/TLS processing from web servers, improving their performance and simplifying certificate management.
URL-Based Routing
Allows directing traffic to different backend pools based on the request URL, enabling flexible application architectures.
Session Affinity
Ensures that requests from the same client are consistently sent to the same backend server, crucial for stateful applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services require high availability and robust security for customer-facing applications and internal trading platforms, making advanced load balancing and WAF critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure secure and reliable access to patient portals and electronic health records, often subject to strict compliance regulations like HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups depend on scalable web applications for online sales and bookings, especially during peak seasons, requiring efficient traffic management.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers need secure and consistently available platforms for client data and case management, demanding reliable application delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Application Gateway Hours?
Microsoft Application Gateway Hours represent the compute capacity consumed by the Azure Application Gateway service. This is a pay-as-you-go model for the resources that power its load balancing, WAF, and routing capabilities.
What is the billing model for Application Gateway Hours?
This is a subscription-based, consumption billing model. You are billed based on the amount of compute time your Application Gateway instances utilize.
What hardware or platform does this apply to?
This applies to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, specifically for the Application Gateway service deployed within the US Central region.
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.