Both application gateway and load balancing can be used in conjunction with front door or cloudflare for geo based load balancing of traffic.
Azure front door vs application gateway pricing.
These gateways also offer enhanced performance better provisioning and configuration update time header rewrites and waf custom rules.
What are the differences between azure firewall azure application gateway azure load balancer nsg azure traffic manager and azure front door.
Based on your application s architecture you can configure azure front door to either direct each web site to its own backend pool or have various web sites directed to the same backend pool.
Web application firewall waf with azure front door and cdn pricing 1.
While front door can load balance between your different scale units clusters stamp units across regions application gateway allows you to load.
Here s a high level consolidation of what they each do.
Waf pricing includes monthly fixed charges and request based processing charges.
There is a monthly charge for each policy and add on charges for custom rules and managed rulesets as configured in the policy.
Application gateway standard v2 and waf v2 sku.
Azure application gateway standard v2 and waf v2 sku offer additional support for autoscaling zone redundancy and static vip.