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.
Front door application gateway.
It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements.
Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution.
Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.
App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz.
However i m also not happy with app gateway.
Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere.
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.
I m considering using something in k8s for north south routing like traefik ambasador or contour.
Vpn gateway establish secure cross premises connectivity.
That is within the scale unit.
Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution.
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.
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.
Azure front door offers a single secure global entry point for web applications apis content and cloud services.
Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic.
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.
Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities.
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.
Azure web application firewall waf on azure front door provides centralized protection for your web applications.
For more information see load balancing with azure s application delivery suite.
Application gateway provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application.
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.
