In this article, we will compare Azure FrontDoor vs Cloudflare in depth. Bobcares, as a part of our Server Management Services offers solutions to every query that comes our way.

Azure Front Door vs Cloudflare

Azure Front Door allows us to create, manage as well as monitor the global routing for the web traffic by optimizing for best performance and instant global fail-over for high availability. On the other hand, Cloudflare for Infrastructure is a complete solution for resources that are secure, performant, and reliable. Cloudflare and Azure Front Door fall in the category of “Content Delivery Network” services.

Cloudflare ranks 2nd in CDN and Azure Front Door ranks 3rd in CDN.

Let us explore each of them and carefully examine the advantages associated with each of them.

Advantages of Azure FrontDoor vs Cloudflare

Azure Front Door

• Azure Front Door is cost-effective which is one of the most important aspects of the product.
• It is also globally applicable and simple to set up.
• It’s also extremely stable and scalable.
• Before traffic enters Azure, Front Door inspects the traffic at the network level. SSL offloading is possible, and it can detect anomalies before the traffic enters the application.
• We can apply as many web application firewall policies as we want to the same Front Door instance.

Cloudflare

• Cloudflare provides a simple, new, and innovative method of protecting the client’s data.
• For business clients, there are tools like Lambda and DNS.
• The most advantageous feature of the solution is DDoS protection.

Disadvantages of Azure FrontDoor vs Cloudflare

Azure Front Door

• Azure governance and cost control is the responsibility of users. As a result, the lack of a programming background makes it difficult to use the tool.
• It is necessary to employ Front Door defenders with various cloud vendors. However, we can currently use it only with the Azure cloud.
• Azure Front Door is unable to perform global load balancing while also providing internal front door services.
• Because Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door are all similar products, users frequently get them mixed up.

Cloudflare

• Cloudflare’s latencies are always an issue.
• There is also insufficient technical support.
• Cloudflare is expensive to use.

There are numerous alternatives to Azure Front Door and Cloudflare available on the market. Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, MaxCDN, and others are examples.

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Conclusion

In this article, we went through the comparison by our skilled Tech team of two popular CDNs, Azure Front Door and Cloudflare.