Azure Front Door Reviews & Insights

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.

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.