What is SKU family?

Question

Hi,

upon reviewing our Application Gateways I saw the following in the ARM template exported from the portal:

"sku": {
	"name": "WAF_v2",
	"tier": "WAF_v2",
	"family": "Generation_1"
},

I got really confused by the last row. I thought that the WAF_v2 SKU is part of the Generation 2 family of SKUs since it has the improved performance etc. But it clearly says we have family generation 1. I thought we would not need to upgrade and were already running the latest version, and sure we do not get any recommendations to upgrade. But still, it says our SKU is in the family 1 generation. Could someone please clarify?

Answer 1

@Karl-Petter Elliot Åkesson

Thank you for your patience here. I got a response back from the team.
Update: 06/04
The "family": "Generation_2" tag is used to identify the underline SKU family associated with the Application Gateway V2. As we transition to the next generation SKU family, this tag helps differentiate Application Gateways that are part of the updated infrastructure. We are currently migrating existing Generation_1 gateways to Generation_2 as part of this upgrade initiative. Please note that this setting is not configurable at this time.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Thank you!

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