Azure Front Door VS Azure Traffic Manager VS Azure Application Gateway VS Azure Load Balancer VS Content Delivery Network (CDN)

• Cloud native integrated
• Enables real-time hyperscale for single domain microservice apps where DNS traffic management cannot
• Provides applications with premium edge performance acceleration and caching via Microsoft’s unique global WAN
• Customers get a single pane of glass for service orchestration  and global traffic optics

Main Feature:

• Accelerate application performance: Front Door ensures that your end users promptly connect to the nearest Front Door POP (Point of Presence)
• Increase application availability with smart health probes
• URL-based routing: Route Matching
• Configure Azure Front Door Service to either direct each web site to its own backend pool or have various web sites directed to the same backend pool
• Cookie-based session affinity
• (SSL) termination
• APP layer security
• Support  IPv6 and HTTP/2

Note: It can be used with On-Prem Server (Example Web server hosted on your local environment)

First of All Let’s understand each service:

Azure Front Door: Microsoft Azure Front Door (AFD) is a service that offers a single global entry point for customers accessing web apps, APIs, content and cloud services.    Through a single pane of glass and global infrastructure, AFD enables Azure customers to build, manage and secure their global applications and content. In other words Azure Front Door Is a global load balancing, but it is doing more by enhancing performance

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