Azure Application Gateway: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Regional Load Balancing and WAF

While Azure Front Door excels at global load balancing, many enterprise scenarios require regional application delivery with deep integration into virtual network architectures. Azure Application Gateway fills this niche perfectly, providing Layer 7 load balancing with integrated Web Application Firewall capabilities within a single Azure region. Having architected countless regional application delivery solutions over my […]

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AWS Security and Compliance: KMS, WAF, Shield, and GuardDuty (Part 5 of 6)

Security is a shared responsibility in AWS. This guide covers AWS security services including IAM deep dive, KMS encryption, WAF, Shield, and security monitoring—with production-ready configurations. 📚 AWS FUNDAMENTALS SERIES This is Part 5 of a 6-part series covering AWS Cloud Platform. Part 1: Fundamentals Part 2: Compute Services Part 3: Storage & Databases Part […]

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