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Azure Front Door — Let’s summarize

Maciej
3 min readDec 17, 2020

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What is Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door Service allows you to define, manage, and monitor global routing of web traffic by optimizing maximum performance and immediate global failover for high availability. Front Door transforms global (multi-region) consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performance, modern, personalized applications, APIs, and content that use Azure to reach users around the world. can

That is, Azure Front Door can:

  • Optimize maximum performance and immediate global fail over for high availability,
  • Define, manage, and monitor global routing of web traffic.

These two are the main features. Also, regarding the functions, it seems that there are the following functions.

  • Faster application performance: Use split TCP-based anycast protocol to ensure that end users are immediately connected to the nearest Front Door POP (point of presence).
  • Increase application availability with smart health probes: Use smart health probes to monitor both backend latency and availability for immediate automatic failover when the backend goes down, which is critical. Achieve high availability of applications
  • URL-based routing: URL path-based routing allows you to route traffic…

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Maciej
Maciej

Written by Maciej

DevOps Consultant. I’m strongly focused on automation, security, and reliability.

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