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Azure Front Door is the #3 ranked solution in top CDN tools, #9 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls, and #15 ranked solution in top Microsoft Security Suite tools. PeerSpot users give Azure Front Door an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Azure Front Door is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure Application Gateway: Azure Front Door vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. Azure Front Door is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 21% of all views.
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What is Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to create fast, secure, and widely scalable web applications. With Front Door, you can transform your global consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performing personalized modern applications with contents that reach a global audience through Azure.

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Azure Front Door was previously known as Azure Front-Door.

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Senior Azure Solution Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Provides a rich toolset for security, directing traffic, and rewriting headers and URLs
Pros and Cons
  • "You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."
  • "There is room for improvement and they're working on it."

What is our primary use case?

If you have a web application in the back end, that's what the Front Door is for: you have to have a web application firewall.

Microsoft's Web Application Firewall is designed for the Application Gateway and regional load balancing, or global balancing with Front Door.

What is most valuable?

It works perfectly and you can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door.

While Front Door works on Layer 7, Traffic Manager works on Layers 3 and 4, and is mainly a DNS router. You can use either one. But, if you have web applications, Front Door can provide you with a much richer toolset, especially when it comes to security, directing traffic, and rewriting the header and the URL.

What needs improvement?

There is room for improvement and they're working on it. Every six months they come out with a preview of changes.

For how long have I used the solution?

Front Door is a global load balancer on Layer 7 and you use it with the Azure Web Application Firewall.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Azure Front Door's stability is very nice.

How was the initial setup?

The only thing you need to do is to create your Web Application Firewall files. It's that simple. You don't need to create a custom balancer because Microsoft covers that in the application. 

It's a piece of cake to maintain. Usually, when I design it, I train the staff on each resource for around three to four hours. Within two to three days, they are up and running and know how to manage it.

What other advice do I have?

They concentrated on Layer 7. If you go to the portal, you'll see that they put the load balancer in just one service, whether it is Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, or Front Door. They then ask you a question: "Do you want local, regional, or global?" and they will tell you which one to choose.

However, you could use the web application firewall with Front Door without needing it. If you are worried about the traffic going out from your infrastructure—if there is anything malicious there—the web application firewall will not do TLS. It's just for incoming traffic. That's what Azure Firewall does.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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CTO Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
Easy to implement and affordable with a fast deployment
Pros and Cons
  • "The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

We tend to use every aspect of the product. We use Azure Front Door, the Web Application Firewall on Front Door, and the Application Gateway. We implement all of these solutions for our customers. It depends on the need of our customers. The solution supports a lot of data publishing work.

What is most valuable?

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

The ease of the implementation is a helpful aspect. It's really, really vital. It's very easy to implement for our customers. We simply handle the first phase and Microsoft does all the rest. The cloud makes it easy. The deployment is fast.

What needs improvement?

I'm not a product specialist. There are other people in the company I work for and they are specialists in each of the products of Microsoft. 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.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We tend to only focus on Microsoft products, including Azure.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's quite easy to implement. The deployment is fast and is mostly handled by Microsoft. It's a great aspect of the product overall.

What about the implementation team?

We help our clients implement the solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is pretty good. It's reasonably priced in general.

What other advice do I have?

We are a Microsoft partner. We implement a lot of products from Microsoft for our customers. We're a partner specializing in Azure and therefore we implement many features that Azure has. We implement Azure Front Door and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.

Usually, Azure is a public cloud. We deploy only Azure. We don't deploy anything on-prem and so we deploy AWS specifically only in the Azure cloud. A lot of our clients these days are moving over to the cloud, and we are assisting with that process.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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