If you are developing a new or an existing web application that is internet facing and can be accessed globally or deploying the new or existing web application in multiple regions then it’s high time to consider Azure Front Door in your application architecture.
Azure Front Door Service (AFD) a scalable and secure entry point for the fast delivery of your global applications. Azure Front Door allows you to transform your global (multi-region) applications into robust, high-performance applications, APIs. AFD makes use of Microsoft Global Network which provides better network performance and reliability. Azure Front Door is a global service and is not tied to any specific Azure region. Azure Front Door is a globally distributed multi-tenant service. The infrastructure for Front Door is shared across all its customers.
Benefits of using Azure Front Door:
- Accelerate application performance, AFD significantly increases application network performance by reducing the round trip time that the end-user spends on the network while trying to access the application. Also AFD route users to the most performant application. In short, it supports multi-geo redundancy and closest region routing.
- TLS termination at the edge (AFD) saves application backend from encryption and decryption.
- Session affinity to handle sticky sessions
- Redirect traffic to your application based on the region it’s been accessed
- AFD makes application resilient, by providing automatic failover by monitoring application in terms of latency and availability using health probes
- AFD supports URL-based routing which is an added advantage for Microservice architecture.
- AFD provides integration with WAF to define custom rules and to provide security from DDoS attacks.
- Rewrite URLs capability supported.
- Multiple site hosting, which means you can have 2 different domains configured on the same front door.
You can find all the Azure Front Door locations here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-pop-locations
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Originally published at https://rajurh.blogspot.com on September 3, 2020.
