Building a Scalable Entry Point for Your Service with Azure Front Door
Building a highly scalable and worldwide application requires experience and the right toolset. Connecting clients from various areas and offering them the very same level of performance and functionalities is often one of the key requirements of an application. With Azure Front Door, you can connect your services with high-performing edge locations, load-balance with ease, and control traffic via firewalls and custom forwarding rules.
Understanding global load-balancing options such as Azure Front Door will help you build scalable architectures and applications that can reach customers across the globe.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- When to use Azure Front Door
- Load balancing with Azure Front Door
- Implementing Uniform Resource Locator (URL) rewrites and redirects
