Azure load balancing and content delivery documentation

Learn about the various Azure load balancing and content delivery services available that provide security for your resources in Azure. Services include Azure Load Balancer, Azure Gateway Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door.

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Choose a load balancing solution

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Azure Application Gateway

Optimize app delivery with Azure Application Gateway for HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

Azure Load Balancer

Manage distribution of load-balanced traffic for public and internal traffic with Azure Load Balancer.

Azure Front Door

Manage web application performance and global routing with Azure Front Door.

Use cases and scenarios

Design and deploy a load balancing solution that meets your application requirements

Load balance your applications and workloads in Azure.

• Quickstart: Create a public load balancer to load balance VMs using the Azure portal
• What is Azure Load Balancer?
• Azure Load Balancer components
• Gateway Load Balancer

Improve performance and globally scale your applications in Azure.

• What is Azure Application Gateway?
• Application Gateway infrastructure configuration
• Rewrite HTTP headers and URL with Application Gateway
• Generate an Azure Application Gateway self-signed certificate with a custom root CA

Deploy global applications for high performance and availability.

• What is Azure Front Door?
• Configure HTTPS on an Azure Front Door custom domain by using the Azure portal
• Comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN services
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door

Learn more about Azure load balancing and content delivery

Explore additional resources to help you design and deploy a load balancing solution

Training modules

• Configure Azure Load Balancer
• Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer
• Configure Azure Application Gateway
• Introduction to Azure Front Door

Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Operational excellence and Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Well-Architected Framework review - Azure Application Gateway v2
• Azure Well-Architected Framework perspective on Azure Front Door

Azure Architecture Center

• Load-balancing options
• Azure Front Door Architecture and Concepts
• Zero-trust network for web applications with Azure Firewall and Application Gateway

Cloud Adoption Framework

• Plan for application delivery
• Introduction to Azure application delivery services

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