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class="margin-top-xxs has-line-height-reset">Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="landing-content" class="padding-block-xs"> <div class="columns is-masonry is-three-masonry-columns"> <div class="column is-12 is-4-desktop"> <div class="box box-shadow-medium margin-none margin-xxs-desktop"> <h2 class="margin-none font-size-h6">Learn about Azure Front Door</h2> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-overview" aria-hidden="true"></span> Overview </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="front-door-overview" data-linktype="relative-path">What is Azure Front Door?</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview" data-linktype="absolute-path">Choose a load balancer</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="/en-us/azure/well-architected/service-guides/azure-front-door" data-linktype="absolute-path">Well-architected framework</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-training" aria-hidden="true"></span> Training </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="/en-us/training/modules/intro-to-azure-front-door/" data-linktype="absolute-path">Introduction to Azure Front Door</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="/en-us/training/modules/create-first-azure-front-door/" data-linktype="absolute-path">Load balance your web traffic with Azure Front Door</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-deploy" aria-hidden="true"></span> Deploy </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="create-front-door-portal" data-linktype="relative-path">Create an Azure Front Door</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="https://mslearn.cloudguides.com/guides/Secure%20your%20web%20applications%20with%20Azure%20Web%20Application%20Firewall" data-linktype="external">Secure your web app with Web Application Firewall</a> </li> </ul> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-reference" aria-hidden="true"></span> Reference </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="front-door-faq" data-linktype="relative-path">FAQ</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="edge-locations-by-region" data-linktype="relative-path">Point of presence locations</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="column is-12 is-4-desktop"> <div class="box box-shadow-medium margin-none margin-xxs-desktop"> <h2 class="margin-none font-size-h6">Reliability</h2> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-concept" aria-hidden="true"></span> Concept </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="routing-methods" data-linktype="relative-path">Routing methods</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="health-probes" data-linktype="relative-path">Health probes</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="../web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-rate-limit" data-linktype="relative-path">Rate 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href="/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/mission-critical-content-delivery" data-linktype="absolute-path">Mission-critical global content delivery</a> </li> <li class="is-unstyled padding-block-xxs"> <a class="has-external-link-indicator font-size-sm display-block" href="/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/mission-critical-global-http-ingress" data-linktype="absolute-path">Mission-critical global HTTP ingress</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="column is-12 is-4-desktop"> <div class="box box-shadow-medium margin-none margin-xxs-desktop"> <h2 class="margin-none font-size-h6">Security</h2> <h3 class="display-flex is-uppercase font-size-sm border-top margin-bottom-xxs margin-top-xs padding-top-xs has-text-subtle"> <span class="margin-right-xxs align-self-center font-size-h5 docon docon-topic-concept" aria-hidden="true"></span> Concept </h3> <ul class="margin-none has-line-height-reset"> <li class="is-unstyled 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