Increasing origin count limit for an origin group in Premium AFD

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Increasing origin count limit for an origin group in Premium AFD

Samyak Sharma 0 Microsoft Employee

I want to understand on the process and request that need to be created, for getting the origin count limit (50 currently) for an origin group for my premium Azure AFD.

Ravi Varma Mudduluru 11,555 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-05T11:11:29.3233333+00:00

Hello @ Samyak Sharma

Thank you for contacting us about the AFD origin issue. We have begun looking into it and will share our suggestions with you as soon as possible.
Ravi Varma Mudduluru 11,555 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-05T18:42:45.2566667+00:00
Hello @Samyak Sharma,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.I understand you are looking to increase the current limit of 50 origins per origin group and want to know the process for requesting this increase.

Current limitation

As per the official Azure documentation, the maximum number of origins per origin group is 50 for both Standard and Premium tiers.

This is a platform-enforced limit and is not configurable or increasable via a support request or quota process. In other words, unlike some service quotas, this is a fixed design constraint rather than a soft limit.

Recommendation:

To support scenarios where you need more than 50 backend targets, you can consider the following approaches:

Use multiple origin groups Azure Front Door Premium supports up to 200 origin groups per profile, allowing you to distribute your origins across multiple groups and route traffic accordingly.

You can refer to the Microsoft documentation here:

Azure Front Door service limits: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits#azure-front-door-standard-and-premium-service-limits

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Ravi Varma Mudduluru 11,555 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-05T11:11:29.3233333+00:00

Hello @ Samyak Sharma

Thank you for contacting us about the AFD origin issue. We have begun looking into it and will share our suggestions with you as soon as possible.
Ravi Varma Mudduluru 11,555 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-05T18:42:45.2566667+00:00

Hello @Samyak Sharma,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.I understand you are looking to increase the current limit of 50 origins per origin group and want to know the process for requesting this increase.

Current limitation

As per the official Azure documentation, the maximum number of origins per origin group is 50 for both Standard and Premium tiers.

This is a platform-enforced limit and is not configurable or increasable via a support request or quota process. In other words, unlike some service quotas, this is a fixed design constraint rather than a soft limit.

Recommendation:

To support scenarios where you need more than 50 backend targets, you can consider the following approaches:

Use multiple origin groups Azure Front Door Premium supports up to 200 origin groups per profile, allowing you to distribute your origins across multiple groups and route traffic accordingly.

You can refer to the Microsoft documentation here:

Azure Front Door service limits: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits#azure-front-door-standard-and-premium-service-limits

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hi Samyak Sharma & thx for join me here at Q&A portal,
50 per origin group is hard limit, Premium gives 200 per profile, not more per group, so this limit is not something u can increase with normal quota request. For AFD Standard/Premium the documented limit is 50 origins per origin group, and Premium only increases origins per profile to 200, not origins per single origin group. Microsoft docs list max origins per origin group as 50 for both Standard and Premium.

so the practical answer is: u need to redesign around the limit. split origins across multiple origin groups and routes, or use an intermediate layer behind AFD, like App Gateway, Nginx, AKS ingress, Traffic Manager, or another load balancing/proxy tier, so AFD sees fewer origins.

if this is a hard business blocker, open support and ask if private limit increase is possible, but expect “not supported” because this looks like a platform limit, not soft quota.

rgds, Alex

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