Service caching static web content on edge servers near users. New profiles can no longer be made on the classic Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft, which retires on 30 September 2027; Azure Front Door Standard or Premium is the route for new deployments.
Also called CDN.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Azure Content Delivery Network in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- Front Door Standard
Lower Azure Front Door tier, with support for routes, custom domains, rule sets and your own WAF rules. Managed WAF rule sets and Private Link origins are only available after upgrading to Premium.
- Premium
Hosting plan for Azure Functions that keeps instances pre-warmed to avoid cold starts and supports VNet integration. Executions time out after 30 minutes by default, which host.json can extend.
Related terms
- Alias record
In Azure DNS, a record set that targets an Azure resource itself (say, a CDN endpoint or public IP) rather than a fixed address, so it stays correct whenever that resource gets a new IP. Bare apex domains can use one to reach such a resource.