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. Waf with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution. 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. Azure web application firewall waf on azure front door provides centralized protection for your web applications.

Application gateway provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application. 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. For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite. Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution.

We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements. Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service. Key vault safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets. App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz.

Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere. It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements. 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 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. 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. Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities. Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.

That is within the scale unit. However i m also not happy with app gateway. Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure.