What is Azure Front Door?

Azure Front Door is a global application delivery service designed to improve the performance, availability, security, and routing of internet-facing applications. It operates at Microsoft's global edge and can route user requests to appropriate application origins. It can be used for scenarios involving: Global web applications Multi-region deployments Application acceleration Traffic routing Health-based failover TLS/SSL termination Web Application Firewall (WAF) For example, an organization operating applications in multiple Azure regions can use Front Door to route users to an appropriate healthy endpoint and provide failover if one region becomes unavailable.