Microsoft Basic Application Gateway (Small) - EU West
Microsoft Application Gateway provides essential web traffic management for your applications, ensuring availability and security for your EU West operations.
- Scalable Capacity: Supports varying traffic loads for your business applications.
- Enhanced Security: Offers features to protect your web applications from common threats.
- High Availability: Helps ensure your applications remain accessible to users.
- Performance Optimization: Improves the responsiveness and user experience of your applications.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Application Gateway license provides the foundational capabilities for managing and securing your web applications. It enables essential features for traffic routing, load balancing, and security, ensuring your applications are accessible and protected within the EU West region.
Designed for businesses that own and operate their IT infrastructure, this service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals overseeing application delivery. It integrates into existing network environments, providing a critical layer for application availability and security without requiring extensive hardware investment.
- Application Delivery Control: Route incoming traffic to specific backend servers based on rules.
- SSL Termination: Offload SSL/TLS decryption from your web servers for improved performance.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protect applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities.
- Session Affinity: Ensure requests from a specific user are directed to the same backend server.
- Health Monitoring: Automatically detect and route traffic away from unhealthy backend instances.
Empower your IT team with essential application delivery and security features, scaling efficiently for your business needs.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Web Application Access
Enable teams to securely expose internal web applications to external users. This ensures that traffic is routed efficiently and protected against common web threats, maintaining business continuity.
cloud-hosted applications, on-premises web servers, hybrid environments, internal business portals
Streamline Application Load Balancing
Streamline the distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple backend servers. This capability enhances application responsiveness and prevents overload on individual servers, improving user experience.
high-traffic websites, internal application services, microservices architectures, API gateways
Automate SSL/TLS Certificate Management
Automate the process of SSL/TLS termination at the gateway, simplifying certificate management for your web servers. This offloads decryption tasks, improving server performance and security posture.
e-commerce platforms, customer-facing portals, secure internal applications, multi-server deployments
Key Features
URL-based content routing
Directs traffic to the appropriate backend pool based on the requested URL, enabling flexible application architectures.
SSL termination
Offloads SSL decryption from web servers, improving their performance and simplifying certificate management.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities, enhancing security.
Cookie-based session affinity
Ensures that requests from a specific user are consistently sent to the same backend server, maintaining session state.
Health probes
Continuously monitors the health of backend servers, automatically rerouting traffic away from unhealthy instances to maintain availability.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and high availability for their online banking portals and trading platforms to meet strict regulatory compliance and customer trust demands.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need secure and reliable access to patient portals and internal systems, necessitating strong security measures and compliance with HIPAA and GDPR.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely on their e-commerce sites and booking platforms to be consistently available and performant, especially during peak seasons, to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service organizations handle sensitive client data and require secure, always-on access to case management systems and client portals to maintain confidentiality and operational efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Application Gateway?
Microsoft Application Gateway is a cloud-based web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It provides features like load balancing, HTTP load balancing, and application security.
What does 'Small' refer to in this license?
The 'Small' designation typically refers to a tier of service offering with specific capacity limits for throughput and connections, suitable for smaller workloads or initial deployments.
Why is the region 'EU West' specified?
Specifying 'EU West' indicates that this license and the associated service are deployed within Microsoft's Azure data centers located in Western Europe, ensuring data residency and compliance with regional regulations.
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.