Front Door Insights

What is Front Door?

Azure Front Door is a scalable and secure entry point for web applications, designed to accelerate delivery of content and applications across a global network. It uses a global network of edge locations to bring content closer to users, reducing latency and improving performance. It provides features like SSL offloading, application acceleration, global load balancing, and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities to protect applications from various attacks and ensure high availability.

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What other technologies are related to Front Door?

Front Door Competitor Technologies

Traffic Manager

Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer, similar to Azure Front Door in that it can direct traffic to different endpoints based on policies. However, it lacks the web application firewall (WAF) capabilities and advanced routing features of Front Door.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 13% (179) of relevant job posts

Application Gateway

Application Gateway is a regional web traffic load balancer that manages traffic to web applications. While Front Door is a global service, Application Gateway provides similar Layer 7 load balancing and WAF capabilities within a region.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 6% (182) of relevant job posts

App Gateway

Application Gateway is a regional web traffic load balancer that manages traffic to web applications. While Front Door is a global service, Application Gateway provides similar Layer 7 load balancing and WAF capabilities within a region.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 8% (69) of relevant job posts

Application Gateways

Application Gateway is a regional web traffic load balancer that manages traffic to web applications. While Front Door is a global service, Application Gateway provides similar Layer 7 load balancing and WAF capabilities within a region.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 7% (56) of relevant job posts

Front Door Complementary Technologies

Azure ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute provides a dedicated private network connection to Azure, which can be used in conjunction with Front Door to provide secure and reliable access to backend services.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 4% (230) of relevant job posts

Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall provides network security and threat protection for Azure resources. It can be used in conjunction with Front Door to provide a multi-layered security approach, with Front Door handling web application firewall (WAF) functions and Azure Firewall providing broader network security.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 4% (128) of relevant job posts

Key Vault

Key Vault is used to securely store and manage secrets, keys, and certificates. Front Door can use certificates stored in Key Vault for TLS/SSL termination.

mentioned alongside Front Door in 3% (174) of relevant job posts