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Azure Front Door

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What is Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.

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Azure Front Door, the Easiest Way to Make Your Web Apps Accessible to Millions of Users Globally

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several web apps, some are for our customers, and some are for the company. We needed a CDN with the following features and capabilities: 1. CDN with multiple POP Locations 2. Web App Firewall capabilities 3. Rules Engine to control certain access patterns 4. Backend availability across multiple cloud regions and data centers We tested and used a few CDNs (Mainly, Verizon and Akamai over Azure) and we tested Azure Front Door, for us, Front Door was cheaper to set up and cheaper to maintain and provided all the capabilities that we needed.

Pros

  • Content delivery across all continents
  • Web & media acceleration
  • Web application firewall
  • Backend geo-availability
  • Reporting & access metrics

Cons

  • Better control over origin caching
  • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
  • TLS & Cipher Control
  • Faster publishing or change updates

Most Important Features

  • Accelerated web access for public portals and websites
  • Protected access with built-in WAF capabilities
  • Backend high-availability across multiple geographic locations

Return on Investment

  • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
  • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
  • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.

Alternatives Considered

Akamai, Verizon Cloud and Cloudflare

Other Software Used

Cloudflare, Azure Application Gateway, Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure CDN, Azure Traffic Manager