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    Azure Front Door

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAzure 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.

    $35

    per month

    TwicPics

    N/AN/ATwicPics is a CDN used for web site loading optimization, used to deliver perfectly sized images & videos in real-time to create more visual-rich experiences. TwicPics helps web pages and apps to remain fast, light and engaging, regardless of devices and internet connection.

    $19

    per month +0.50$ per additional GB

    Pricing
    Azure Front DoorTwicPics
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $35
    per month
    Premium
    $330
    per month
    Business (40GB of CDN bandwidth)
    $19
    per month +0.50$ per additional GB
    Business (250GB of CDN bandwidth)
    $99
    per month +0.40$ per additional GB
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
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    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Front DoorTwicPics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​
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    Amazon CloudFront
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Amazon CloudFront
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Azure CDN
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Front DoorTwicPics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Azure Front DoorTwicPics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Content delivery across all continents
    • Web & media acceleration
    • Web application firewall
    • Backend geo-availability
    • Reporting & access metrics
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Better control over origin caching
    • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
    • TLS & Cipher Control
    • Faster publishing or change updates
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    TwicPics
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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    TwicPics
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • 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%.
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    TwicPics
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