index.yml

### YamlMime:Landing

title: Azure Front Door and CDN documentation
summary: Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications.

metadata:
  title: Azure Front Door and CDN Documentation
  description: Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. Learn how to use Front Door with our quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.
  author: halkazwini
  ms.author: halkazwini
  ms.service: azure-frontdoor
  ms.topic: landing-page
  ms.date: 10/30/2024

# linkListType: architecture | concept | deploy | download | get-started | how-to-guide | learn | overview | quickstart | reference | tutorial | whats-new

landingContent:
# Cards and links should be based on top customer tasks or top subjects
# Start card title with a verb
  # Card
  - title: Learn about Azure Front Door
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: What is Azure Front Door?
            url: front-door-overview.md
          - text: Choose a load balancer
            url: /azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview
          - text: Architecture best practices for Azure Front Door
            url: /azure/well-architected/service-guides/azure-front-door
      - linkListType: training
        links:
          - text: Introduction to Azure Front Door
            url: /training/modules/intro-to-azure-front-door/
          - text: Load balance your web traffic with Azure Front Door
            url: /training/modules/create-first-azure-front-door/
      - linkListType: deploy
        links:
          - text: Create an Azure Front Door
            url: create-front-door-portal.md
          - text: Secure your web app with Web Application Firewall
            url: https://mslearn.cloudguides.com/guides/Secure%20your%20web%20applications%20with%20Azure%20Web%20Application%20Firewall
      - linkListType: reference
        links:
          - text: FAQ
            url: front-door-faq.yml
          - text: Point of presence locations
            url: edge-locations-by-region.md

  # Card
  - title: Reliability
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Routing methods
            url: routing-methods.md
          - text: Health probes
            url: health-probes.md
          - text: Rate limiting
            url: ../web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-rate-limit.md
      - linkListType: architecture
        links:
          - text: Preserve original HTTP hostname
            url: /azure/architecture/best-practices/host-name-preservation
          - text: Global routing redundancy for mission critical web applications
            url: /azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/overview
          - text: Mission-critical global content delivery
            url: /azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/mission-critical-content-delivery
          - text: Mission-critical global HTTP ingress
            url: /azure/architecture/guide/networking/global-web-applications/mission-critical-global-http-ingress

  # Card
  - title: Security
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Security baseline
            url: /security/benchmark/azure/baselines/azure-front-door-security-baseline
          - text: Web application firewall best practices
            url: ../web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-best-practices.md
          - text: End-to-end TLS encryption
            url: end-to-end-tls.md
          - text: Secure origins with Azure Private Link
            url: private-link.md
          - text: DDoS protection
            url: front-door-ddos.md
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: Enable Private Link
            url: standard-premium/how-to-enable-private-link-web-app.md
          - text: Configure WAF policy
            url: ../web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-create-portal.md
          - text: Use Azure Firewall Manager
            url: ../web-application-firewall/shared/manage-policies.md
          - text: Use Microsoft Sentinel
            url: ../web-application-firewall/waf-sentinel.md
 
  # Card
  - title: Cost optimization
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Understanding billing
            url: billing.md
          - text: Price comparison between tiers
            url: understanding-pricing.md
          
  # Card
  - title: Operational excellence
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Domain and certificate management
            url: domain.md
          - text: HTTP to HTTPS redirection
            url: front-door-url-redirect.md
          - text: Logs and metrics
            url: front-door-diagnostics.md
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: View reports
            url: standard-premium/how-to-reports.md
          - text: Configure diagnostics logs
            url: standard-premium/how-to-logs.md
          - text: Access metrics and alerts
            url: standard-premium/how-to-monitor-metrics.md

  # Card
  - title: Performance efficiency
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Caching
            url: front-door-caching.md
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:    
          - text: Compression
            url: standard-premium/how-to-compression.md
  
  # Card
  - title: Troubleshoot
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: RefString
            url: refstring.md
          - text: Common issues
            url: troubleshoot-issues.md
          - text: Performance issues
            url: troubleshoot-performance-issues.md

  # Card
  - title: Load balancing and content delivery
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: get-started
        links:
          - text: Documentation
            url: https://aka.ms/loadbalancingandcontentdeliverydocs
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: Azure Application Gateway
            url: ../application-gateway/overview.md
          - text: Azure Load Balancer
            url: ../load-balancer/load-balancer-overview.md