Azure Front Door is Microsoft's content delivery and application acceleration service, combining global load balancing, CDN, and security for teams delivering applications on Azure. It operates across 185+ points of presence on a global anycast network with usage-based pricing and no perpetual free tier beyond Azure trial credit. Web Application Firewall policies are included on its premium tier, and DDoS protection is provided through Azure's protection services. Available since around 2016, it carries SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP attestations and is aimed at enterprise teams within the Azure ecosystem.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
CDN
- Edge locations
- 185+ PoPs
- Free tier
- No
- Starting price
- Usage / bandwidth-based
- DDoS protection
- Yes
- WAF included
- Yes
- Global anycast
- Yes
- Bandwidth model
- Usage based