Web Application Proxy provides organizations with the ability to provide selective access to applications running on servers inside the organization to end-users located outside of the organization.

Unlike traditional VPN solutions, when you publish applications through Web Application Proxy end users can gain access only to applications that you publish.

The Web Application Proxy role service is also an AD FS proxy. That is, Web Application Proxy listens to all of the end-points that AD FS listens to. Web Application Proxy also forwards any requests from the Internet to AD FS and responses from AD FS to the Internet.

Deploying this Virtual Machine you are ensuring the applications inside your corporate network to allow users on any device to access them from outside the corporate network. Additionally, providing end-users to access their organization's applications from their own devices, so that users are not limited to corporate laptops to do their work, they can use their home computer, their tablet, or their smartphone.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.