Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door is another load-balancing service that also operates as a Layer 7 load balancer, much like Azure Application Gateway. The service is very similar (load-balancing, SSL offloading, path-based routing, fast failover, etc.), except that it is designed for the global delivery of services as opposed to regional. The service can also enable WAF services and is designed for web-based workloads. The Azure Front Door service is Microsoft’s variation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), with caching capabilities designed to enable high-performance and consistent connectivity over Microsoft’s networks for your application. One of the benefits of the Front Door service is its ability to offer different traffic-routing methods:

• Latency: This is designed for faster connections to your services by routing requests to the backends that have the lowest latency. This means that services located closer to where you are connecting globally will be...