It’s a content acceleration solution that leverages Microsoft’s global edge network to provide fast connectivity to your solution across the globe. It’s another global load balancer or a global application gateway because it is built for web applications and it provides a range of web functionality (additional caching, acceleration capabilities, etc.).
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Azure Front Door vs Azure Traffic Manager
Traffic Manager | Front Door |
|---|---|
Supports several protocols | Support HTTP/S |
Routes traffic by responding to DNS queries based on routing method | Accelerates web traffic through Microsoft’s edge network |
Traffic is routed directly | Traffic is proxied at the edge |
Routing: performance, priority, weighted, geo and multi-value | RoutingL latency, priority, weighted and session affinity |
Simply routes to healthy endpoints | Add Layer 7 features, rate-limiting and IP-based ACLs |