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Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond
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Azure Front Door is another load-balancing service that also operates as a Layer 7 load balancer, much like Azure Application Gateway. The service is very similar (load-balancing, SSL offloading, path-based routing, fast failover, etc.), except that it is designed for the global delivery of services as opposed to regional. The service can also enable WAF services and is designed for web-based workloads. The Azure Front Door service is Microsoft’s variation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), with caching capabilities designed to enable high-performance and consistent connectivity over Microsoft’s networks for your application. One of the benefits of the Front Door service is its ability to offer different traffic-routing methods: