Our website is built through a Gatsby process and generic static files. All the static content for the site gets hosted in the CDN. We use Azure Front Door as an entry point for it.
We need to use the Front Door to support our application globally. You have some users in Europe or Asia, or when on a different Internet, you can implement a Front Door, which is a good feature. You can skip all the traffic from the master guide implemented on the web. So this component is also secure, but the problem with the Front Door is the time latency.
Senior Azure Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
Real User
2021-09-22T19:17:00Z
Sep 22, 2021
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.
CTO Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-06-03T09:57:23Z
Jun 3, 2021
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 a CDN? A CDN (content delivery network or content distribution network) is a network of proxy servers and their data centers that is geographically distributed and that work together to deliver internet content. The goal of a CDN is to deliver content as cheaply, quickly, securely, and reliably as possible. The majority of web traffic today is served through CDNs, which are a paid third-party service.CDNs allow for the rapid transfer of whatever assets are needed for loading...
Our website is built through a Gatsby process and generic static files. All the static content for the site gets hosted in the CDN. We use Azure Front Door as an entry point for it.
We need to use the Front Door to support our application globally. You have some users in Europe or Asia, or when on a different Internet, you can implement a Front Door, which is a good feature. You can skip all the traffic from the master guide implemented on the web. So this component is also secure, but the problem with the Front Door is the time latency.
This solution is a global load balancer for web applications, offering layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. We are implementers of Azure products.
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.
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.
We use it for external security filtering to protect our external traffic that is coming into Azure.