First published on MSDN on Apr 20, 2017
Authored by Jeffrey Chilberto
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The Azure Application Gateway has been further enhanced to offer greater protection and monitoring with the Web Application Firewall (WAF). WAF is
generally available
and provides protection against many common attacks including SQL injection, Cross Site scripting, HTTP manipulation and others. WAF provides real-time monitoring, is integrated into
Azure Monitor
and allows for customized WAF rules and rule groups.
The
Azure Application Gateway
is an application delivery controller (ADC) as a service offering layer 7 load balancing capabilities. The Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway and Traffic Manager provide support for distributing traffic in Azure but provide
different features and support different scenarios
.
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