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.
What are the differences between azure firewall azure application gateway azure load balancer nsg azure traffic manager and azure front door.
The azure application gateway aag is a web traffic manager for your web applications one or multiple.
Azure application gateway standard v2 and waf v2 sku offer additional support for autoscaling zone redundancy and static vip.
While front door can load balance between your different scale units clusters stamp units across regions application gateway allows you to load.
Application gateway provides layer 7 load balancing for web services but again does not provide the same cdn capabilities as front door and can also reside inside a virtual network.
Web application firewall waf with azure front door and cdn pricing 1.
Waf pricing includes monthly fixed charges and request based processing charges.
Here s a high level consolidation of what they each do.
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.
Application gateway standard v2 and waf v2 sku.