Azure Front Door

- [Instructor] Traffic Manager is a neat hijack … of the DNS system to provide improved performance … from the user's perspective with the additional benefit … of some failover should a cloud region go down. … But it's not really a true load balancer. … It's really just a dynamic DNS directory … that can return a different answer … to different people asking the same question … depending on where in the world they are located. … The Azure Front Door service provides more robust … load balancing services at a global level. … Microsoft describes Front Door as a scalable … and secure entry point for fast delivery … of your global applications. … So the name of the service is pretty clever. … Front Door provides performance benefits … by having the service placed … at edge locations closer to users. … It provides global scale, layer seven load balancing similar … to the application gateway, allowing you … to distribute traffic to different regions intelligently … based on the domain name and the path information. …