Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere.
Front door application gateway.
Azure front door offers a single secure global entry point for web applications apis content and cloud services.
That is within the scale unit.
Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic.
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.
I m considering using something in k8s for north south routing like traefik ambasador or contour.
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.
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.
Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.
While both front door and application gateway are layer 7 http https load balancers the primary difference is that front door is a global service whereas application gateway is a regional service.
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 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.
Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.
We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements.
Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution.
Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure.
Waf with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution.
App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz.
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.
Key vault safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets.
Application gateway provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application.
Azure web application firewall waf on azure front door provides centralized protection for your web applications.
However i m also not happy with app gateway.
For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite.
