In addition, the App Service plans to introduce support for incoming HTTP traffic over IPv6, enabling Web applications to accept traffic on both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.

The new Azure Web and mobile app services offer scalable Web, device, logic, and API app back ends. The API Management and Notification services in this category are not new.

Azure gives you an option to upgrade the gateway to the Web Application Firewall tier. When you select the Upgrade to WAF Tier checkbox, the Azure portal reveals a few extra options (see Figure 4).