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  Sitecore - On-Premises to Azure PaaS (ASE) Cloud Migration - Part 2   Security aspects considered while designing the new Azure PaaS infrastructure   Sitecore Web applications are hosted inside Azure App Service Environment (ASE) which is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated, dedicated and secure environment to run App Service applications    WAF protection o    WAF feature of the Application Gateway provides centralized protection for your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. o    WAF is based on rules from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) core rule sets 3.0 or 2.2.9. o    Sitecore Content Delivery server runs behind WAF and IP restrictions on the Web App. These limits access only from the Application Gateway ·          With Application Gateway, only IPs from certain countries were allowed (based on previous ...

  Sitecore - On-Premises to Azure PaaS(ASE) Cloud Migration - Part 1 Introduction In this blog series, I’ll attempt to explain in the detail the architecture, design and approach for migrating (or should I say Re-hosting) a Sitecore website from an on-premises environment to Azure PaaS ASE environment.   Background The current Sitecore website hosted on on-premises had scalability issues. The website performance was impacted during the spikes in demand. The Traffic volumes coming into the website was expected the double due to a merger. The desired objective was to scale website to enough level to cater for increased volumes and Improve the existing resilience levels of the website. On-premises Architecture Highlights of the current on premises architecture Sitecore version 8.2, Mongo DB for Analytics and Backend systems were Oracle and .NET based There were 6 Sitecore Content Delivery servers split across 2 Data centers Three in each of Data Center (Windows 20...