Moderate to move
Application Gateway on Akamai (Linode): what it becomes and what it costs.
On Akamai (Linode), Application Gateway becomes Akamai NodeBalancer + Traefik / NGINX on Akamai Linode compute instances; Coraza for WAF rules. L7 routing and TLS termination port to a reverse proxy; WAF_v2 rules need Coraza or Cloudflare.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
15% of today
Standard_v2 is $0.246/h = $180/mo plus capacity units; {load_balancer} at €7.49 plus Traefik on a CX23, about 15%.
Engineer time
none added
Priced from usage; it runs on the servers already counted.
Your own Application Gateway line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Application Gateway included, on Akamai (Linode) list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.