Integrating Azure Front Door with Cloudflare for DDoS protection

Question

I am setting up DDoS protection for my client using Cloudflare. I want to integrate Cloudflare with Azure Front Door, but I am having trouble getting it to work. When I set the domain to be proxied, the setup fails. If I put it to DNS only, I am unsure if the domain is protected against DDoS attacks. Can anyone guide me on properly setting up Azure Front Door with Cloudflare for optimal DDoS protection? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi Cameron,

Azure Front Door already offers DDoS protection:

DDoS protection on Front Door

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-ddos

Azure Front Door is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that can help you protect your origins from HTTP(S) DDoS attacks by distributing the traffic across its 192 edge POPs worldwide. These POPs uses our large private WAN to deliver your web applications and services faster and more securely to your end users. Azure Front Door also includes layer 3, 4, and 7 DDoS protection and a web application firewall (WAF) to help protect your applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure DDoS protection

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-ddos#infrastructure-ddos-protection

Tiers

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview#tiers

Pricing

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview#pricing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ddos-protection/

Hopefully this information helps.

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Dillon Silzer, Director | Cloudaen.com | Cloudaen Computing Solutions