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Azure Front Door pros and cons

Vendor: Microsoft

4.4 out of 5

16 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Azure Front Door inspects network-level traffic with SSL offloading, offering global scalability, stability, and flexible firewall policies. Its CDN and load-balancing integration enhance global presence management, while advanced routing improves traffic management. Azure Front Door offers reliable DDoS protection but lacks multi-cloud support, struggles with latency, and needs better pricing for large-scale deployments. Its features are limited compared to Cloudflare, requiring better differentiation from Traffic Manager and Application Gateway.

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PROS

Azure Front Door inspects traffic at the network level, enabling SSL offloading and detecting abnormalities before traffic reaches the application.

It is affordable and allows users to assign multiple web application firewall policies to the same instance.

Integrations are impressive, and the tool provides global implementation of resources without dependency on location.

Valuable features include CDN and load-balancing capabilities combined in a single service.

Advanced routing rules for traffic management enhance security and configuration of HTTP headers and origin domains.

CONS

Azure Front Door should support integration with multiple cloud vendors beyond Azure cloud.

There is confusion between Azure Front Door, Traffic Manager, and Application Gateway due to unclear definitions.

Azure Front Door lacks certain functionalities and is relatively expensive compared to competitors like Cloudflare.

The latency of Azure Front Door needs improvement, especially in hybrid environments.

There is a limitation on the number of global rules and the cost needs to be optimized for large-scale projects.

Azure Front Door Pros review quotes

reviewer2226693

Architect at SoftwareONE

Jul 24, 2025

Azure Front Door's advanced routing rules for traffic management are highly effective, allowing you to configure HTTP tags, change different header or header response values, configure origin domains, and add security to your Layer 7 using these routing rules.

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Azure Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 28, 2023

I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively.

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V Vinayaka Murthy

Azure Consultant at Srinsoft Technology

Aug 26, 2024

The tool is easy to use for beginners.

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Software architect at CDW

Nov 28, 2023

Rules Engine is a valuable feature.

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Bernard Parinas

Co-Founder at arpa

Mar 28, 2025

I find the technical support excellent, and I rate it a ten.

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Azure Principal Architect at Cloud Computech Consultancy

May 4, 2023

Has a great application firewall and we like the security.

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Daniel Gualteros

Senior DevOps Engineer at Optum

Jun 22, 2023

The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world.

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TZ

Senior Azure Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services

Sep 22, 2021

You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door.

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CTO Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 3, 2021

The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable.

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reviewer2535048

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at UKG

Aug 18, 2024

The most valuable feature is that I can have CDN and load-balancing capabilities in a single service instead of managing two separate tools.

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Azure Front Door Cons review quotes

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Architect at SoftwareONE

Jul 24, 2025

Although Microsoft states it comes with basic DDoS protections out of the box, I find it often ineffectual in mitigating thousands of requests from a single source in a short time.

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Azure Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 28, 2023

My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table.

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V Vinayaka Murthy

Azure Consultant at Srinsoft Technology

Aug 26, 2024

In the tool, there needs to be a good amount of monitoring in the area of health probes to capture in front of what is happening.

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Software architect at CDW

Nov 28, 2023

There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add.

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Bernard Parinas

Co-Founder at arpa

Mar 28, 2025

I dislike the URL set parameters.

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Azure Principal Architect at Cloud Computech Consultancy

May 4, 2023

It lacks sufficient functionality.

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Daniel Gualteros

Senior DevOps Engineer at Optum

Jun 22, 2023

The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources.

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TZ

Senior Azure Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services

Sep 22, 2021

There is room for improvement and they're working on it.

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CTO Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 3, 2021

I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing.

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reviewer2535048

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at UKG

Aug 18, 2024

The tool should improve its cost.

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