Section 5 – Implement platform protection – Implement advanced network security – Create and configure Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium SKU comparison | Microsoft Docs

Azure Front Door has been around for some time now and even the new evolved version has been with us for a prolonged period of time but still it is in preview.

Who is it for?

Azure Front Door is one form of load balancer with extra features. During on-premises work I used similar features with external Load balancers and IIS Url rewrite modules to accomplish the same kind of configs.

Then came Windows Application Proxy, what a joy.

So for us who did this and who want to do it still but in the cloud.

Key features included with Front Door:

You could example use this feature to deploy a custom domain login from Azure B2C solution or any other solution that you want to provide secure and access to. It could be even your on-premises or what ever web-based service.

Pricing

Data transfer out from edge location to clientNorth America, Europe1Asia Pacific (including Japan)1South America1Australia1India1
First 10 TB /Month€0.147 per GB€0.216 per GB€0.432 per GB€0.242 per GB€0.294 per GB
Next 40 TB (10-50 TB) /Month€0.130 per GB€0.190 per GB€0.368 per GB€0.207 per GB€0.251 per GB
Next 100 TB (50-150 TB) /Month€0.113 per GB€0.164 per GB€0.311 per GB€0.173 per GB€0.212 per GB
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Routing RulesPrice per UnitPricing Unit
First 5 routing rules€0.026Per Hour
Per additional routing rule€0.011Per Hour
Routing RulesPrice per UnitPricing Unit
First 5 routing rules€0.026Per Hour
Per additional routing rule€0.011Per Hour

How to?

Search for Front Door or just a create a new resource and you will be welcomed with the following options.

If you go with quick create it will allow you to configure the whole deployment with a Front Door designer.

Frontend pool is the name of your instance, backend pool is the backend service what you want balance to.

If you want to use a custom domain, you will add it to frontend pool and you have to add an cname that points to your adf domain, like so.

Go to public dns and add it.

Once done go back to your AFD instance.

Then select “Add” and voila.

The next thing is to add the custom domain to your routing rule. Open and expand frontends / domains and select custom domain.

Once done and saved the config, you will open the custom domain.

Now you will enable the HTTPS and certificate request is pushed forward, it will take time, just have patience.

Wuhuu, now you have your own custom domain and MS generated certificate. That was easy.

From here you can see what Load balancer would be right for your.

Next generation of Front doors

So what’s new with next gen versions of AFD.

Key features included with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview):

Custom domains in next gen versions

The process is a little bit different. First you add the custom domain.

Need to verify

You will get the txt-record to add for public domain.

Go back and done.

What about the pricing?

Base fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​

Not availableMonthly price*
Standard SKU€15.092
Premium SKU€142.291

Data transfer out from edge location to client (same price for Standard and Premium SKU)​

Data transfer out to clientNorth America, EuropeAsia Pacific (including Japan)South AmericaAustraliaIndia
First 10 TB /Month€0.072 per GB€0.100 per GB€0.095 per GB€0.097 per GB€0.113 per GB
Next 40 TB (10-50 TB) /Month€0.057 per GB€0.085 per GB€0.072 per GB€0.082 per GB€0.082 per GB
Next 100 TB (50-150 TB) /Month€0.049 per GB€0.077 per GB€0.065 per GB€0.074 per GB€0.074 per GB
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Data transfer in to origin (same price for Standard and Premium SKU)​

Data transfer in to originNorth America, EuropeAsia Pacific (including Japan)South AmericaAustraliaIndia
All Data Transfer€0.018 per GB€0.052 per GB€0.108 per GB€0.069 per GB€0.138 per GB

Request Pricing

Standard SKU

Request pricing (per 10,000 requests)​North America, EuropeAsia Pacific (including Japan)South AmericaAustraliaIndia
First 250 million requests​€0.0078€0.0094€0.0172€0.0098€0.0094
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Request pricing (per 10,000 requests)​North America, EuropeAsia Pacific (including Japan)South AmericaAustraliaIndia
First 250 million requests​€0.0130€0.0145€0.0224€0.0150€0.0145
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Comparing the different versions

Azure Front Door

  • Is an Application Delivery Network (ADN) as a service
  • Offers various layer 7 load-balancing capabilities for your applications.
  • It provides dynamic site acceleration (DSA)
  • Provides global load balancing with near real-time failover.
  • It is a highly available and scalable service, which is fully managed by Azure.

Azure Front Door Standard SKU

  • Content delivery optimized
  • Offering both static and dynamic content acceleration
  • Global load balancing
  • SSL offload
  • Domain and certificate management
  • Enhanced traffic analytics
  • Basic security capabilities

Azure Front Door Premium SKU

  • builds on capabilities of Standard SKU, and adds:
  • Extensive security capabilities across WAF
  • BOT protection
  • Private Link support
  • Integration with Microsoft Threat Intelligence and security analytics.

Things to remember

AFD has three different levels Basic, Standard and Premium.

AFD can generate a certificate for You or You can bring Your own.

When using a custom domain, You have to also define the used FQDN domain inside the custom domains.

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