In 2015, Microsoft announced one of its coolest and important enterprise networking solutions in Azure, named Azure Application Gateway, and ever since then, this service has witnessed many enhancements based on customers' feedback.

Azure Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancing service for applications. This service comes with many features for customers using web applications, such as SSL and CPU offloading.  Also, it provides a web application firewall (WAF) included in it that provides protection for the web applications and prevention of malicious attacks.