Azure Front Door

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In this article

  1. Why use Azure Front Door?
  2. Key Benefits
  3. How to choose between Azure Front Door tiers?
  4. Where is the service available?
  5. Pricing
  6. What's new?
  7. Next steps

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.

Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that provides fast, reliable, and secure access between your users and your applications’ static and dynamic web content across the globe. 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.

Diagram of Azure Front Door routing user traffic to endpoints.
Note

For web workloads, we highly recommend utilizing Azure DDoS protection and a web application firewall to safeguard against emerging DDoS attacks. Another option is to employ Azure Front Door along with a web application firewall. Azure Front Door offers platform-level protection against network-level DDoS attacks. For more information, see security baseline for Azure services.

Why use Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door enables internet-facing application to:

Key Benefits

Global delivery scale using Microsoft’s network

Scale out and improve performance of your applications and content using Microsoft’s global Cloud CDN and WAN.

Deliver modern apps and architectures

Modernize your internet first applications on Azure with Cloud Native experiences

Simple and cost-effective
Intelligent secure internet perimeter

How to choose between Azure Front Door tiers?

For a comparison of supported features in Azure Front Door, see Tier comparison.

Where is the service available?

Azure Front Door Classic/Standard/Premium SKUs are available in Microsoft Azure (Commercial) and Azure Front Door Classic SKU is available in Microsoft Azure Government (US).

Pricing

For pricing information, see Front Door Pricing. For information about service-level agreements, See SLA for Azure Front Door.

What's new?

Subscribe to the RSS feed and view the latest Azure Front Door feature updates on the Azure Updates page.

Next steps