Front Door Application Gateway

Azure front door offers a single secure global entry point for web applications apis content and cloud services.

Front door application gateway. I m considering using something in k8s for north south routing like traefik ambasador or contour. Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere. Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure. Azure front door enables you to define manage and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and quick global failover for high availability.

We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements. Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution. For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite. It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements.

With front door you can transform your global multi region consumer and enterprise applications into robust high performance personalized modern applications apis and content that reaches a global audience with azure. App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz. Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution. Application gateway provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application.

That is within the scale unit. Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic. Waf with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution. Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.

Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity. Through a single pane of glass and global infrastructure azure front door enables azure customers to securely deliver and manage their global applications and content migrate to cloud and modern microservice architectures and improve their users experience. While both front door and application gateway are layer 7 http https load balancers the primary difference is that front door is a global service whereas application gateway is a regional service. While front door can load balance between your different scale units clusters stamp units across regions application gateway allows you to load balance between your vms containers etc.

Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities. Just like the azure application gateway front door can allow you to route traffic based on url paths of the request but it does allow for more complex route matching scenarios azure traffic manager enables you to control how traffic is distributed across your application endpoints. Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.