Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (Medium)
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (Medium) enhances your web application's performance and security by providing intelligent traffic distribution and advanced load balancing capabilities.
- Enhanced Performance: Accelerate application response times through intelligent traffic routing and SSL offloading.
- Improved Availability: Ensure continuous application uptime with health probes and automatic failover.
- Advanced Security: Protect your applications with Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities and secure traffic management.
- Scalable Capacity: Dynamically adjust capacity to meet fluctuating user demand and traffic loads.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Azure Application Gateway (Medium) subscription provides the core platform licensing for managing and optimizing web application traffic. It enables advanced load balancing, SSL termination, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to ensure secure and efficient delivery of your business applications.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this service to enhance the performance, availability, and security of their web-facing applications, integrating it within their existing Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Intelligent Load Balancing: Distributes incoming traffic across multiple instances of your web application.
- SSL Offloading: Decrypts SSL/TLS traffic at the gateway, reducing the processing load on your web servers.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects against common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
- Health Monitoring: Continuously monitors the health of backend application instances and routes traffic only to healthy servers.
- URL-Based Routing: Directs traffic to specific backend pools based on the requested URL path.
Azure Application Gateway (Medium) offers essential capabilities for businesses seeking to optimize their web application delivery and security within the Azure cloud environment.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Web Application Delivery
Enable teams to securely deliver web applications by providing a centralized point for traffic management and security enforcement. Streamline the process of protecting against common web attacks and ensuring data integrity.
cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, multi-tier web applications
Improve Application Availability and Uptime
Automate the process of maintaining high availability for critical web services through intelligent health probes and automatic failover. Ensure continuous operation by routing traffic away from unhealthy application instances.
business-critical web services, customer-facing portals, internal enterprise applications
Optimize Web Application Performance
Streamline application performance by offloading SSL/TLS encryption and decryption from backend servers. Accelerate response times and improve user experience through efficient traffic distribution.
high-traffic websites, e-commerce platforms, API gateways
Key Features
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities, enhancing your security posture.
SSL Offloading
Reduces the processing burden on your web servers by handling SSL/TLS encryption and decryption at the gateway.
Health Probes
Ensures application availability by continuously monitoring backend instances and automatically rerouting traffic away from unhealthy servers.
URL-Based Routing
Allows for flexible traffic management by directing requests to different backend pools based on the URL.
Autoscaling
Dynamically adjusts capacity to handle fluctuating traffic demands, ensuring performance and cost-efficiency.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services require robust security and high availability for customer-facing applications to comply with strict regulatory standards and maintain trust.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure secure and uninterrupted access to patient portals and internal systems, adhering to HIPAA and other data privacy regulations.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses rely on secure, high-performance web applications for e-commerce, bookings, and customer interactions, especially during peak seasons.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use web applications for supply chain management, operational dashboards, and internal collaboration, requiring reliable and secure access for their distributed teams.
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 intelligent traffic distribution, Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, and SSL termination.
What does the 'Medium' tier signify?
The 'Medium' tier refers to a specific capacity and performance level within Azure Application Gateway offerings. It balances features and throughput suitable for many SMB and mid-market application needs.
How does Application Gateway improve security?
It enhances security through its integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF), which protects against common web exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It also supports SSL/TLS encryption for secure data transmission.
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.