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.).
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 |