Chapter 8
Azure Front Door
Overview
Azure Front Door is a fully managed scalable global service that provides a secure front end for any web application. It uses Microsoft’s global edge network to improve speed of access and to provide better security and enhanced scalability for consumer-facing or internal web applications.
Organizations that have a global audience for their web applications can benefit from the proximity of the web application to the end user’s region. To provide such an audience with a consistent experience, organizations can use content delivery networks (CDNs). The Azure Front Door service provides CDN capabilities along with security and routing features that are part of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Traffic ...
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