Azure Front Door

Summary

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

Highlights

Whether you’re delivering content and files or building global apps and APIs, Azure Front Door can help you deliver higher availability, lower latency, greater scale, and more secure experiences to your users wherever they are. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3vb7dmsv04w5012r4t88gkv))

Azure Front Door delivers your content using Microsoft’s global edge network with hundreds of global and local points of presence (PoPs) distributed around the world close to both your enterprise and consumer end users. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3vb7ma8c5tqr5arfahmpdqm))

Azure Front Door enables internet-facing application to:
• Build and operate modern internet-first architectures that have dynamic, high-quality digital experiences with highly automated, secure, and reliable platforms.
• Accelerate and deliver your app and content globally at scale to your users wherever they're creating opportunities for you to compete, weather change, and quickly adapt to new demand and markets.
• Intelligently secure your digital estate against known and new threats with intelligent security that embrace a Zero Trust framework. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3vb81smq5133b8h818nx02m))

Scale out and improve performance of your applications and content using Microsoft’s global Cloud CDN and WAN.
• Leverage over 118 edge locations across 100 metro cities connected to Azure using a private enterprise-grade WAN and improve latency for apps by up to 3 times.
• Accelerate application performance by using Front Door’s anycast network and split TCP connections.
• Terminate SSL offload at the edge and use integrated certificate management.
• Natively support end-to-end IPv6 connectivity and the HTTP/2 protocol. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3vb8bh6d38wnb0yyzmcta41))

Modernize your internet first applications on Azure with Cloud Native experiences
• Integrate with DevOps friendly command line tools across SDKs of different languages, Bicep, ARM templates, CLI and PowerShell.
• Define your own custom domain with flexible domain validation.
• Load balance and route traffic across origins and use intelligent health probe monitoring across apps or content hosted in Azure or anywhere.
• Integrate with other Azure services such as DNS, Web Apps, Storage and many more for domain and origin management.
• Move your routing business logic to the edge with enhanced rules engine capabilities including regular expressions and server variables.
• Analyze built-in reports with an all-in-one dashboard for both Front Door and security patterns.
• Monitoring your Front Door traffic in real time, and configure alerts that integrate with Azure Monitor.
• Log each Front Door request and failed health probes. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h3vb8mq89zp9yttyn7qzbwd6))