Azure Front Door
Modern cloud CDN that delivers optimized experiences to your users anywhere.
Accelerate content delivery securely and at scale
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications.
Cloud-native and DevOps tools to automate and streamline deployment.
Fully customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities.
Instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.
Seamlessly attached web application firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and bot protection to safeguard apps and content.
Build apps from any origin on modern architecture
Accelerate dynamic and static content delivery
Protect your apps with seamlessly attached security
Optimize costs and forecasting with a simple pricing model
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
-
Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
-
We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.
-
Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
-
Azure Front Door pricing
Azure Front Door offers a range of security, acceleration, global load balancing, and caching solutions operating at the network edge. Choose the option that fits your scale, performance, and budget needs. There are no upfront costs or termination fees—pay for only what you need.
Get started with an Azure free account
1
Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.
2
After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.
3
After 12 months, you'll keep getting 55+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.
See how customers are using Azure Front Door
Optimized performance with modern architecture
"Azure Front Door serves as a giant, automatic, worldwide CDN—connecting users around the world to the closest 'Microsoft fiber' to deliver worldwide performance optimization"
Cam Allen, Software Developer, Zooniverse
Stronger security posture with cloud-native services
Dematic wanted a cloud-native approach to security for its customer-facing services, and chose Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door to protect web applications from web-based attacks and malicious bots.
Azure Front Door resources and documentation
Frequently asked questions about Azure Front Door
-
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN service that provides high performance, scalability, and secure experiences for your content, files and global applications. It combines modern CDN technology and intelligent threat protection in a tightly integrated service that’s easy to set up, deploy, and manage.
-
Azure Front Door supports features such as dynamic and static content acceleration, global load balancing, traffic and security analytics, web application firewall (WAF), bot and DDoS protection, and Azure Private Link support. Learn more about the Azure Front Door features.
-
Azure Front Door supports HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2.
-
Azure Front Door is a global service and is not tied to any specific Azure region. The only location you’ll need to specify is the resource group location – in other words, where the metadata for the resource group will be stored. Azure Front Door is deployed globally to all edge locations. The service is also available within Azure Government cloud.
-
Azure Front Door is a globally distributed multi-tenant service, meaning the infrastructure is shared by all users. However, by creating an Azure Front Door profile, you define the specific configuration required for your application, and changes made to your configurations won’t impact other tenant configurations.