The Azure Application Gateway also provides the following features: http load balancing, cookie based session affinity, SSL offload, end to end SSL, URL based content routing, multi-site routing, websocket support, health monitoring, SSL policy and ciphers, request redirect, multi-tenant back-end support and advanced diagnostics.
As mentioned above, the Azure Application Gateway is used for layer 7 load balancing. Using Traffic Manager to distribute the traffic to various application gateway services which in turn provide layer 7 load balancing. There are three different types of load balancers in Azure: Azure Load Balancer - Layer 4 traffic distribution, Application Gateway - Layer 7 load balancing and Traffic Manger which uses DNS to direct traffic distribution to endpoints based on an end user location. Traffic Manager can be used in conjunction with Application Gateway:
Further detailed information can be viewed at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/application-gateway/application-gateway-introduction
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