AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 5.4 - Application Gateway

Benefits

• Scaling
  • Scale the Application Gateway up or down based on the amount of traffic received
• Encryption
  • Comply with any security policies. Disable or enable traffic encryption to the backend
• Zone Redundancy
  • Span multiple availability zones and improve fault resiliency
• Multi-site Hosting
  • Use the same application gateway for up to 100 websites

Exam Tips

An application gateway is a higher level load balancer.

• It works on the HTTP request of the traffic, instead of the IP address and port
• Traffic from a specific web address can go to a specific machine
• Is a fit for most other Azure services
• Supports auto-scaling, end-to-end encryption, zone redundancy, and multi-site hosting