Microsoft Azure Application Gateway Valuable Features
There are a lot of things I appreciate about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is beneficial for us as it helps in publishing our website, providing us comfort when it comes to the availability of our applications.
The autoscaling feature in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very obvious, and I have no issues with it; it is well planned and organized.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway impacts our cost savings while maintaining higher performance.
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) in Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has been very effective in protecting applications from security threats.
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway helps us manage our AI-driven applications by enabling faster transactions, improving our work.
View full review »Microsoft has a vast variety of tools, and it blends very well. It provides a range of services, so it integrates well with other solutions. We are using it for some of the security features for our applications, particularly for securing traffic in transit with SSL.
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JorgePalaia
Advisor Cloud Master Architecture Azure AWS (USA, UK, Argentina) at Jorge Palaia
It creates security, manages installations, and integrates different applications and solutions. It is flexible and scalable, provides better business solutions and controlled versions, improved security, and comprehensive documentation.
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Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
June 2025

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PrestonRozwood
Trader at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is an easy-to-use solution.
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Arjun Alva
IT Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway gives us a lot of benefits, including domain mapping. We use a lot of Azure web tools, API servers, and API agents to fetch data from different locations.
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UthmaanHendricks
IT Architect at Western Cape Government
The tool is easy to use and quite flexible. It has policy management features as well. The solution screens all traffic to our web applications before passing it to the application. We recently tested it on one of our poorly developed applications, and the upgrade gave us a 100% result based on our tests. It's very effective as a security measure, and people can detect threats even through the web application.
View full review »We use all the features. It is very useful. Using WAF, we can control the WAF rules based on our application requirements. We can control what rules should be used and what should be disabled. The role of the tool is limited to HTTP traffic. It does exactly what it must do. It's a regional service.
We know how to use it for DR scenarios. WAF has been the most valuable in protecting applications. We use at least three instances in the back end to give the best performance for our applications. The management and configuration of the solution is quite easy. All certificate renewals are automatically taken care of by Key Vault.
The solution has built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure. You can enable any missing rules or create custom rules if needed.
View full review »The tool helps manage microservices by providing developers with a platform to conduct tests and assessments on the web application. The custom domain option is one of the most valuable features I've found. This feature is incredibly helpful for the end-users of the web application. With the custom domain feature, you can change the lengthy link to a shorter, more memorable one. For example, instead of using a lengthy default link, you can customize it to something like imail.com, which is much easier to remember and share.
It also comes with a DNS feature. The tool is easy to integrate with other platforms.
View full review »The cloud platform is really easy to use and doesn't require any maintenance.
The solution provides great automation and it is easy to upgrade service.
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Nitin Bharti
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is the web application firewall (WAF).
View full review »The product's most important feature is WAF. Using policies to link and manage these URL-based routing configurations is also valuable. It allows you to route traffic to different backend services based on the specific URLs requested from the load balancer.
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Daniel Gualteros
Senior DevOps Engineer at Optum
The security feature in all the layers of the application is the most valuable.
View full review »I find its Application Gateway's WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks.
View full review »Azure Application Gateway's most valuable feature is ease of use. The configuration is straightforward. It isn't difficult to adjust the size of your instances in the settings. You can do that with a few clicks, and the configuration file is the same way. You can also set rules and policies with minimal time and effort.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management.
View full review »It has a filter available, although we are not currently using it because it is not part of our requirements. But it is a good option and when it becomes part of our requirements we will definitely use it.
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Ravilla Jaisimha
Software Architect at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees
The automatic redirection and security features are crucial for us. The performance is the main thing. Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it.
The Autoscaling feature in Application Gateway is very important to us. It allows us to scale based on the number of users without compromising performance.
View full review »The product's WAF was useful to protect against the OWASP attacks.
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Ramesh Karanam
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis
If you don't want to use public IPs and expose your enterprise externally to the public world, and you want strict authorization, you should use Azure Application Gateway.
The solution's most valuable feature is an HTTP solution and SSL certificate. It is also easy to use.
View full review »We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is its ease of use.
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VishalJain
Solution Architecture at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
If you are using a third party application and have network constraints, you can use the API in your network and then create a proxy out of it. It is URL-based.
The solution's integration is very good.
The troubleshooting feature is also good, as it gives you a fair amount of permission.
The solution offers the ability to scale the bandwidth in real-time and observability.
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Francesco MariaCompagnucci
RTD at Fidoka srl
The production is a valuable feature.
View full review »I like the tool's stability and performance.
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TonyKerr
IT Consultant at productive it solutions
The health probe is pretty good for your backend health. It tells you whether it's communicating and talking to the endpoint correctly. It is quite useful.
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Andrei Brajnicov
System Administrator at a comms service provider
The most valuable feature is WAF.
Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing.
Overall, we've been happy with the solution.
The solution has good integrations. You can combine it between a few different options.
The product is easy to work with. It has a very high level of performance.
The solution is well supported by Mircosoft. If you run into issues, they are there to assist and to work with you to resolve everything.
The pricing is quite good.
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Sukun Jain
Senior Software Engineer at Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date.
Once the gateway is configured, you can route all of your client requests based on the relevant part. For example, if somebody is asking to upload an image then a separate part will be called, whereas if they are asking to upload a video then it will be a different repository.
View full review »Application Gateway is cost-effective and has autoscaling. We can autoscale it.
View full review »So far, so good, but there are some capabilities we would like to investigate further, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) and other similar features.
It does an excellent job of load balancing. The Application Gateway is performing load balancing, but we must decide whether to continue using the Gateway's firewall or to use another firewall. That's what we're looking at.
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OrenYeger
Cloud Security Officer at cloudnow
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on.
View full review »The solution offers good protection of applications during deployment. It makes the deployment of applications that are on Azure fairly straightforward.
The solution is easy to set up.
View full review »I think the WAF feature is valuable, it replicates your firewall. It's one of the features in the application gateway and that's in a layer 7-based firewall with layer 7-based features. We use this feature a lot in the application gateway.
Load balancing and web application firewall features are the most valuable.
View full review »The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs.
View full review »The customization is probably the best feature in my opinion. I haven't yet delved deeper into the product or actually given recommendations, but what I hear from our customers is it's doing the job and our Security Operations Center is able to report and take action on any alerts.
The solution has a variety of different features that are all excellent.
The simplicity of the solution and its ability to integrate easily with others are its most valuable aspects.
View full review »We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities.
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Samer Samir
Azure Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Usually, there is a recommendation from Microsoft about integrating Azure Application Gateway with other services like Monitor and Sentinel, so that there is seamless log forwarding and rule management. However, other options involve much more extensive configuration and scripting. In my experience, Microsoft products have a smooth integration and facilitate easy management and monitoring. Using Azure Application Gateway allows us to efficiently handle the system loads.
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The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a comprehensive product, but it doesn't have too many API integrations.
View full review »We are satisfied with the solution. The load balancing features are valuable. We faced some issues before. The product acts as an extra layer to prevent attacks. We haven't had the problem since.
Buyer's Guide
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
860,632 professionals have used our research since 2012.