Microsoft Azure Application Gateway Subscription
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway Subscription provides advanced web traffic management and security for your business applications, ensuring high availability and compliance.
- Enhanced Security: Coverage for advanced web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to protect against common exploits.
- Scalable Performance: Entitlement to dynamic scaling of application gateway resources based on traffic demands.
- High Availability: Protection against downtime with features for load balancing and session affinity across multiple instances.
- Compliance Assurance: Access to features that help meet regulatory requirements for data handling and traffic inspection.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Azure Application Gateway subscription provides a managed service that enables you to optimize application throughput by offloading resource-intensive tasks like SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, and URL-based content routing. It offers advanced web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to protect your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.
This platform license is designed for businesses of all sizes that host their own web applications on Azure. It is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals responsible for the security, performance, and availability of their organization's web presence, fitting seamlessly into existing Azure environments.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects against OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and custom security rules.
- SSL Termination: Offloads SSL encryption/decryption to improve web server performance.
- Load Balancing: Distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend instances for high availability.
- URL-Based Routing: Directs traffic to specific backend pools based on request URL.
- Session Affinity: Ensures requests from a specific client are directed to the same backend server.
Azure Application Gateway Subscription is the essential choice for businesses seeking robust web application security and performance without the overhead of managing dedicated hardware.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Web Application Delivery
Enable teams to protect their public-facing web applications from common cyber threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Streamline the deployment of security policies and ensure continuous protection against evolving vulnerabilities.
Cloud-native applications, multi-tier web architectures, applications requiring external access
Optimize Application Performance and Availability
Streamline the distribution of incoming traffic across multiple backend servers to prevent overload and ensure high availability. Automate SSL termination to reduce the processing load on web servers, improving overall application responsiveness.
High-traffic websites, e-commerce platforms, applications with fluctuating user loads
Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Automate the enforcement of security rules and traffic inspection to help meet industry-specific compliance standards. Provide audit trails and logging capabilities essential for regulatory adherence and security posture management.
Applications handling sensitive data, businesses in regulated industries, environments requiring detailed traffic logs
Key Features
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects your web applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of data breaches and service disruptions.
SSL Termination
Offloads SSL encryption and decryption from your web servers, improving their performance and allowing them to focus on serving application content.
Load Balancing
Distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend instances, ensuring high availability and preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.
URL-Based Routing
Allows you to route traffic to specific backend pools based on the request URL, enabling flexible application architectures and content delivery.
Session Affinity
Ensures that requests from a specific client are consistently sent to the same backend server, which is crucial for applications that maintain user session state.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and high availability for their customer-facing portals and transaction processing systems to meet strict regulatory compliance and protect sensitive data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure secure access to patient portals and electronic health records (EHR) systems, adhering to HIPAA and other privacy regulations while maintaining continuous service availability.
Retail & Hospitality
E-commerce platforms and reservation systems in retail and hospitality need to handle high volumes of traffic, especially during peak seasons, while protecting customer payment information and ensuring a seamless user experience.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies must provide secure and reliable access to public services and data, often subject to stringent security mandates and the need for transparent, auditable operations.
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 a web application firewall (WAF) to protect your applications.
What kind of security does Application Gateway offer?
It offers a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects against common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other OWASP Top 10 threats. It also supports SSL/TLS encryption and decryption.
How does Application Gateway help with application performance?
It improves performance by offloading SSL termination from your web servers and by distributing traffic across multiple backend instances through load balancing, ensuring optimal resource utilization and faster response times.
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.