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What is the difference between Azure Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Front Door and Firewall?

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Pierre_Roman
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May 16, 2019
   Hello folks,   Last week at a conference in Toronto, an attendee came to the Microsoft booth and asked something that has been asked many times in the past.  So, I decided to cover it here fo...
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vergarm
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Jun 20, 2019

Pierre_Roman , can Application Gateway handle sticky sessions? I've configured basic Load balancer that need to do SSL termination (https from browser to load balancer and then have a rule that sends traffic to bak-end pool on port  80. It looks like this is only possible with Application Gateway but I'm wondering if it can do sticky sessions. Thanks