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## What is Azure Web Application Firewall?
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Azure WAF provides centralized, cloud-native protection of web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. It inspects incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic against a set of rules and can block, log, or redirect malicious requests before they reach your application. A centralized WAF simplifies security management because you patch known vulnerabilities in one place rather than securing each web application individually.
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Azure WAF provides centralized, cloud-native protection of web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. It inspects incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic against a set of rules and can block, log, or redirect malicious requests before they reach your application. A centralized WAF simplifies security management because you patch known vulnerabilities in one place rather than securing each web application individually. WAF is not a standalone service. A WAF policy is its own Azure resource that you create independently, but it has no effect until you associate it with one of the supported hosting services listed below.
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:::image type="content" source="../media/web-application-firewall-overview.png" alt-text="Diagram that shows Web application firewall." lightbox="../media/web-application-firewall-overview.png":::
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| Scenario | Recommended WAF service |
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| Single-region web applications behind a load balancer | WAF on Azure Application Gateway |
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| Single-region web applications, or applications requiring virtual network integration at the WAF layer | WAF on Azure Application Gateway |
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| Globally distributed web applications requiring edge acceleration | WAF on Azure Front Door |
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| Applications requiring virtual network integration at the WAF layer | WAF on Azure Application Gateway |
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| Containerized workloads using Kubernetes Gateway API | WAF on Application Gateway for Containers |
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| Multi-region applications needing global failover and WAF | WAF on Azure Front Door with regional Application Gateways |
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