AZ499308 - Public Preview: Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway for Containers

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Published

Aug 6, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • August 2025
    Preview

Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

Application Gateway for Containers now supports Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy in public preview. Using WAF’s Default Ruleset, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) administrators and developers can protect their workloads against malicious attacks and exploits such as: 

  • Cross-site scripting  
  • Java attacks  
  • Local file inclusion  
  • PHP injection attacks  
  • Remote command execution  
  • Remote file inclusion  
  • Session fixation  
  • SQL injection protection  
  • Protocol attacks  

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