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Azure Front Door

Deliver optimized experiences to your users anywhere with a modern cloud content delivery network.
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OVERVIEW

Accelerate secure content delivery 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.
  • Easily deploy apps on a modern network architecture to build dynamic, high-quality digital experiences. Simplify cloud-native development with a fully programmable, API-driven service integrated with a wide array of Azure services, including Azure DNS and Azure Web Apps.
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  • Deliver low-latency, high-throughput content at scale from the cloud or on-premises infrastructure to users anywhere. Accelerate static and dynamic content delivery with a unified platform built on the massively scalable Microsoft private global network.
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  • Defend your digital estate against threats with advanced security services including web application firewall (WAF), bot protection, and DDoS protection. Privately access your app origin and embrace a zero trust model with support for Azure Private Link. Monitor and troubleshoot traffic and security with real-time analytics.
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  • Azure Front Door offers simple, easy, and transparent pricing. Reduce bandwidth costs with no additional charges for transferring data from the Azure datacenter to the Azure Front Door edge location.
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FEATURES

Discover what you can do with Azure Front Door

Automated deployment

Automate and streamline deployment with cloud-native and DevOps tools.

Customizable

Enhance routing capabilities with a fully customizable rules engine.

Scalability

Get instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.

Security

Safeguard apps and content with seamlessly attached web application firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and bot protection.
Security

Built-in security and compliance 

Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
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PRICING

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 only for what you need.
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CUSTOMER STORIES

See how customers are using Azure Front Door

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"The resilience of our surface area with Azure Front Door is massive. It’s hard to envision a scenario where the site wouldn’t be available, which is quite comforting."

Alan Bezzant, Senior Engineer, Nationwide Building Society
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RESOURCES

Azure Front Door resources and documentation

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Overview

Azure App Service overview

Learn about Azure App Service, an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends.
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Walkthrough

Integrate your ILB App Service Environment

Learn how to create an Azure Application Gateway and configure it to point to an app in your ILB App Service Environment.
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Security

Security in Azure App Service

See how Azure App Service helps secure your web app, mobile app back end, API app, and function app.
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Firewall

Azure Web Application Firewall on Azure Front Door

Defend your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities, and keep your service highly available for your users.
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Documentation

What is Azure Private Link?

Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) and Azure hosted customer-owned/partner services over a private endpoint in your virtual network.
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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.
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