Azure Front Door and CDN documentation

Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications.

Learn about Azure Front Door

Overview

• What is Azure Front Door?
• Choose a load balancer
• Architecture best practices for Azure Front Door

Training

• Introduction to Azure Front Door
• Load balance your web traffic with Azure Front Door

Deploy

• Create an Azure Front Door
• Secure your web app with Web Application Firewall

Reference

• FAQ
• Point of presence locations

Reliability

Concept

• Routing methods
• Health probes
• Rate limiting

Architecture

• Preserve original HTTP hostname
• Global routing redundancy for mission critical web applications
• Mission-critical global content delivery
• Mission-critical global HTTP ingress

Security

Concept

• Security baseline
• Web application firewall best practices
• End-to-end TLS encryption
• Secure origins with Azure Private Link
• DDoS protection

How-To Guide

• Enable Private Link
• Configure WAF policy
• Use Azure Firewall Manager
• Use Microsoft Sentinel

Cost optimization

Concept

• Understanding billing
• Price comparison between tiers

Operational excellence

Concept

• Domain and certificate management
• HTTP to HTTPS redirection
• Logs and metrics

How-To Guide

• View reports
• Configure diagnostics logs
• Access metrics and alerts

Performance efficiency

Concept

• Caching

How-To Guide

• Compression

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

• RefString
• Common issues
• Performance issues

Load balancing and content delivery

Get started

• Documentation

Overview

• Azure Application Gateway
• Azure Load Balancer