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.
Also called Azure Front Door Standard.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Front Door
Layer-7 global front end that fails over between origins using anycast, terminates TLS, routes requests by URL path and can apply a rate-limiting WAF.
- Archive
Offline access tier for blobs, cheapest to store yet dearest to access. Reading a blob means rehydrating it first, which can take as long as 15 hours.
- Web Application Firewall
Protection at layer 7 from OWASP Top 10 threats like XSS and SQL injection, available on Application Gateway or Front Door.
- Azure Private Link
Azure capability placing PaaS services such as Azure Storage behind a private endpoint in your VNet. Traffic stays on the Microsoft backbone with no public IP involved, though VNet and DNS configuration are required.
- 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
- Azure Content Delivery Network
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.
- Route (Front Door)
In Azure Front Door Standard and Premium, ties a set of domains, protocols and path patterns to one origin group. When matching, an exact path beats any wildcard, and longer wildcards beat shorter ones.
- Rule set (Front Door)
Rules in Azure Front Door Standard or Premium that run once a route has matched; they can change requests and responses or send traffic to a different origin group.
- Security policy (Front Door)
In Front Door Standard or Premium, the resource that links a WAF policy to domains, or alternatively to routes or the whole profile.