WAF Pricing

Author: JackStromberg

articles/application-gateway/for-containers/understanding-pricing.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: application gateway
 author: mbender-ms
 ms.service: azure-appgw-for-containers
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 5/9/2024
+ms.date: 7/21/2025
 ms.author: mbender
 # Customer intent: As a cloud architect, I want to understand how Azure Application Gateway pricing works, so that I can accurately budget for my application infrastructure costs.
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@@ -26,11 +26,17 @@ This article describes the costs associated with each billable component of Appl
 ## Billing Meters
 
 Application Gateway for Containers consists of four billable items: 
+
 - Application Gateway for Containers resource
 - Frontend resource 
 - Association resource 
 - Capacity units
 
+When Web Application Firewall is enabled two more billable items are added:
+
+- Web Application Firewall resource
+- Requests processed by WAF
+
 #### Application Gateway for Containers hour
 
 An Application Gateway for Containers hour corresponds to the amount of time each Application Gateway for Containers parent resource is deployed. The Application Gateway for Containers resource is responsible for processing and coordinating configuration of your deployment.
@@ -171,6 +177,27 @@ Pricing calculation:
 * 3 Capacity Units x $0.008 x 730 hours = $17.52
 * Total = $124.83
 
+### Example 6 - WAF enabled
+
+This example assumes Application Gateway for Containers has load raising the number of capacity units and has a Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy reference. The WAF policy is configured with both DRS 2.1 and bot manager rulesets.
+
+*	1 Application Gateway for Containers resource
+*	1 frontend resource
+*	1 association resource
+*	8 capacity units
+*	1 WAF policy running a default ruleset and a bot manager ruleset
+*	10 million requests processed by WAF
+
+Pricing calculation:
+
+*	1 Application Gateway for Containers x $0.017 x 730 hours = $12.41
+*	1 Frontend x $0.01 x 730 hours = $7.30
+*	1 Association x $0.12 x 730 hours = $87.60
+*	8 Capacity Units x $0.008 x 730 hours = $46.72
+*	WAF Policy x $0.068 x 730 hours = $49.64
+*	10 million requests x $0.75 x 2 rulesets = $15
+*	Total = $218.67
+
 ## Next steps
 
 See the following articles to learn more about how pricing works in Application Gateway for Containers by visiting the Application Gateway pricing pages: