The Application Gateway Basic SKU is a new SKU within Application Gateway family. It is designed for small and medium-sized customers, making it ideal for applications with lower traffic and SLA requirements that don’t require advanced traffic management features. Application Gateway Basic SKU has built-in high availability and supports HTTP2/HTTPS and WebSocket protocols. It offers core application-level load balancing features such as URL-based, host-based and multi-site routing, along with cookie-based affinity. It supports flexible backends, including AKS, VMSS, App Services, and on-premises deployment. Customers can select the Basic SKU either directly from the Azure Portal or through their preferred scripting languages.
