Front Door Application Gateway

Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.

Front door application gateway.

We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements. It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements. Azure web application firewall waf on azure front door provides centralized protection for your web applications. Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure.

Azure front door offers a single secure global entry point for web applications apis content and cloud services. App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz. Key vault safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets. Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution.

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 with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution. 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. I m considering using something in k8s for north south routing like traefik ambasador or contour.

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. 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. However i m also not happy with app gateway. Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic.

For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite. Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution. Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere. That is within the scale unit.

Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities. 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. Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.