Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway is a load balancing service that operates as a Layer 7 load balancer, which means it's capable of interrogating the source request and directing its destination based on the path. Splitting destinations by path is a common function for web-based load balancing scenarios where resource delivery can be split into different pools and SKU types, which we discussed earlier in the chapter.

The main component to remember about this service is that it's designed for regional load balancing of web-based services. One of the features of the service is the ability to enable WAF features that are catered to protecting against exploits and vulnerabilities of your web application workloads. Another main benefit of the service is the ability to enable SSL offloading capabilities, which can improve the performance of your web services as the strain is removed from them and delivered by the application gateway directly.

The Application...