Waf with azure front door is a globally distributed edge security solution.
Front door application gateway.
Waf with application gateway is a regional dedicated solution.
Azure information protection better protect your sensitive information anytime anywhere.
We recommend you choose a solution based on your overall performance and security requirements.
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 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.
However i m also not happy with app gateway.
App gateway sits in your vnet in a special subnet like a dmz.
Refer to front door s routing architecture details and traffic routing methods to learn more about the service.
Waf defends your web services against common exploits and vulnerabilities.
That is within the scale unit.
It keeps your service highly available for your users and helps you meet compliance requirements.
Front door is outside so the load balancer will have to accept public internet traffic.
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 provides application delivery controller adc as a service offering various layer 7 load balancing capabilities for your application.
Key vault safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets.
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.
Azure front door offers a single secure global entry point for web applications apis content and cloud services.
Waf on front door is a global and centralized solution.
Application gateway build secure scalable and highly available web front ends in azure.
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.
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.
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.