Azure Front Door is a cloud-based global service provided by Microsoft Azure that enables customers to improve the performance, reliability, and security of their web applications. Azure Front Door acts as an entry point for web traffic and provides advanced traffic routing and load balancing capabilities. It also includes features such as SSL offloading, application acceleration, and DDoS protection.
Some of the key features of Azure Front Door include:
- Global traffic management: Azure Front Door enables customers to route traffic to the nearest available backend service based on user location, latency, or other criteria.
- Application acceleration: The service includes features such as SSL offloading and HTTP/2 support that can improve application performance and reduce latency.
- High availability: Azure Front Door is a highly available service with built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities.
- DDoS protection: The service includes built-in DDoS protection capabilities that help protect against DDoS attacks and minimize the impact of such attacks.
- Centralized management: Azure Front Door provides a centralized management interface that enables customers to manage all their web traffic routing and load balancing needs from a single location.
- Integration with other Azure services: Azure Front Door integrates seamlessly with other Azure services such as Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, and Azure CDN, enabling customers to build end-to-end solutions for their web applications.
Azure Front Door provides customers with a comprehensive solution for managing and securing their web traffic. By using Azure Front Door, customers can improve the performance, reliability, and security of their web applications while reducing costs and complexity.
