What is Azure Front Door used for?

Azure Front Door is Microsoft's global cloud CDN and application delivery service, offering load balancing, acceleration and a web application firewall. It is a good fit for distributing traffic across regional web apps and protecting public web apps with a WAF.

How much does Azure Front Door cost?

Azure Front Door is a paid product with no free plan.

Is Azure Front Door open source?

No. Azure Front Door is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Front Door include NGINX and HAProxy.

What are some alternatives to Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door competes with Amazon CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN and Cloudflare. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Front Door alternatives.

Azure Front Door: features, pricing and alternatives

About Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door is a Microsoft Azure service that sits at the edge of Microsoft's global network and routes user requests to web applications. Microsoft describes it as a modern cloud content delivery network that combines global load balancing, dynamic content acceleration and a web application firewall.

It is used to direct traffic to the nearest or healthiest backend, speed up delivery of both static and dynamic content, and filter malicious requests before they reach an application. Backends can be hosted in Azure or elsewhere, and the service is configured through the Azure portal and tooling.

Azure Front Door is a commercial, usage-billed service in the Azure catalog. It suits teams building globally distributed web apps and APIs, particularly those already on Azure, and pricing is listed on the Azure pricing pages.

Key features

Global HTTP load balancing across backends
Dynamic and static content acceleration
Built-in web application firewall
Edge routing to healthy origins
Configuration through the Azure portal and tools

Good fit for

→Distributing traffic across regional web apps
→Protecting public web apps with a WAF

Tags: cdn; azure; load-balancing; waf; application-delivery; microsoft

Azure Front Door: questions and answers

What is Azure Front Door used for?: Azure Front Door is Microsoft's global cloud CDN and application delivery service, offering load balancing, acceleration and a web application firewall. It is a good fit for distributing traffic across regional web apps and protecting public web apps with a WAF.
How much does Azure Front Door cost?: Azure Front Door is a paid product with no free plan.
Is Azure Front Door open source?: No. Azure Front Door is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Front Door include NGINX and HAProxy.
What are some alternatives to Azure Front Door?: Azure Front Door competes with Amazon CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN and Cloudflare. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Front Door alternatives.