Microsoft Application Gateway (Small) Hours
Microsoft Application Gateway hours provide essential capacity for managing and scaling your web applications, ensuring secure and reliable access for your business operations.
- Coverage for: Application Gateway operational capacity in the US West region, enabling traffic management and security features.
- Entitlement to: Utilize Microsoft's robust infrastructure for load balancing, SSL termination, and web application firewalling.
- Protection against: Inefficient resource allocation by paying only for the gateway hours consumed.
- Access to: Advanced security features and traffic management capabilities for your public-facing applications.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides hourly capacity for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, a cloud-native service that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It offers features like load balancing, HTTP to HTTPS redirection, cookie-based session affinity, and SSL termination, enhancing both performance and security. The 'Small' designation and 'US WEST' region specify the tier and location of the deployed resource.
Businesses utilizing Azure for their web presence, including SMBs and mid-market companies, can leverage this licensing to ensure their applications are accessible, secure, and performant. It is ideal for organizations that need granular control over their application delivery infrastructure without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- Scalable Capacity: Provides hourly usage of Application Gateway, allowing you to scale resources up or down based on demand.
- Enhanced Security: Offers features like Web Application Firewall (WAF) and SSL termination to protect against common web exploits.
- Improved Performance: Distributes incoming traffic across multiple web servers, preventing overload and ensuring faster response times.
- Traffic Management: Enables advanced routing rules, URL path-based routing, and host-based routing for complex application architectures.
- Compliance Ready: Helps meet regulatory requirements by providing secure traffic handling and logging capabilities.
Azure Application Gateway hours offer a flexible and cost-effective way for businesses to secure and optimize their web application delivery.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Web Application Access
Enable teams to securely expose their web applications to the internet with features like SSL termination and a Web Application Firewall. This ensures that only legitimate traffic reaches your applications, protecting sensitive data and user information.
cloud-hosted applications, public-facing websites, API gateways, microservices architecture
Streamline Application Traffic Management
Streamline the distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple backend servers using intelligent load balancing. This improves application responsiveness and prevents any single server from becoming a bottleneck, enhancing overall user experience.
load balancing, high availability, performance optimization, multi-server deployments
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of security policies for web traffic, helping to meet compliance requirements and protect against common threats. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspects incoming requests for malicious patterns, blocking threats before they reach your applications.
compliance adherence, threat mitigation, security posture management, regulatory requirements
Key Features
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities by inspecting traffic.
SSL Termination
Offloads SSL decryption from your web servers, improving their performance and simplifying certificate management.
Load Balancing
Distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend servers to ensure high availability and responsiveness.
URL Path-Based Routing
Routes traffic to different backend pools based on the requested URL path, enabling complex application architectures.
Cookie-Based Session Affinity
Ensures that requests from the same user are consistently sent to the same backend server, maintaining session state.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services require robust security and high availability for customer-facing applications to protect sensitive data and maintain 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 traffic management and data protection features of Application Gateway essential for patient portals and health record systems.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses experience fluctuating traffic, especially during peak seasons or promotions. Application Gateway's scalability and load balancing ensure consistent performance for e-commerce sites and booking platforms.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services need to protect confidential client information. Application Gateway's security features, including SSL termination and WAF, help secure client portals and internal applications.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Application Gateway?
Microsoft Application Gateway is a cloud-native service that manages traffic to your web applications. It provides features like load balancing, SSL termination, and a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to enhance security and performance.
What does 'Small' refer to in the product title?
The 'Small' designation typically refers to a specific tier or configuration of the Application Gateway, often indicating a baseline capacity or performance level suitable for smaller workloads or initial deployments.
Why is it billed hourly?
Hourly billing provides flexibility, allowing you to pay only for the time your Application Gateway is actively running and managing traffic. This is ideal for businesses with variable traffic demands or those looking to optimize cloud spending.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.