Merge pull request #269510 from duongau/patch-6

Azure Front Door - Comparison for services (replacing yes with checks)

Author: v-dirichards

articles/frontdoor/front-door-cdn-comparison.md

@@ -26,59 +26,59 @@ The following table provides a comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
 | Features and optimizations | Front Door Standard | Front Door Premium | Front Door Classic | Azure CDN Standard Microsoft | Azure CDN Standard Edgio | Azure CDN Premium Edgio |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | **Delivery and acceleration** | | | | | | |
-| Static file delivery | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Dynamic site delivery | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
+| Static file delivery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Dynamic site delivery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ |
 | **Domains and Certs** | | | | | | |
-| Custom domains | Yes - DNS TXT record based domain validation | Yes - DNS TXT record based domain validation | Yes - CNAME based validation | Yes - CNAME based validation | Yes - CNAME based validation | Yes - CNAME based validation |
-| Prevalidated domain integration with Azure PaaS Service | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
-| HTTPS support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Custom domain HTTPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Bring your own certificate | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
+| Custom domains | ✓ - DNS TXT record based domain validation | ✓ - DNS TXT record based domain validation | ✓ - CNAME based validation | ✓ - CNAME based validation | ✓ - CNAME based validation | ✓ - CNAME based validation |
+| Prevalidated domain integration with Azure PaaS Service | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
+| HTTPS support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Custom domain HTTPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Bring your own certificate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 | Supported TLS Versions | TLS1.3, TLS1.2, TLS1.0 | TLS1.3 TLS1.2, TLS1.0 | TLS1.3, TLS1.2, TLS1.0 | TLS1.3, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.0/1.1 | TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 | TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 |
 | **Caching** | | | | | | |
-| Query string caching | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Cache manage (purge, rules, and compression) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Fast purge | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
-| Asset pre-loading | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
-| Cache behavior settings | Yes using Standard rules engine | Yes using Standard rules engine | Yes using Standard rules engine | Yes using Standard rules engine | Yes | Yes |
+| Query string caching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Cache manage (purge, rules, and compression) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Fast purge |  |  |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Asset pre-loading |  |  |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Cache behavior settings | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ | ✓ |
 | **Routing** | | | | | | |
-| Origin load balancing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Path based routing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Rules engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Server variable | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
-| Regular expression in rules engine | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
-| URL redirect/rewrite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
-| IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| HTTP/2 support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Routing preference unmetered | Not required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | Not required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | Not required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | Not required as Data transfer from Azure origin to CDN is free and path is directly connected | Yes | Yes |
+| Origin load balancing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Path based routing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Rules engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Server variable | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
+| Regular expression in rules engine | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  | ✓ |
+| URL redirect/rewrite | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  | ✓ |
+| IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| HTTP/2 support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Routing preference unmetered | t required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | t required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | t required as Data transfer from Azure origin to AFD is free and path is directly connected | t required as Data transfer from Azure origin to CDN is free and path is directly connected | ✓ | ✓ |
 | Origin Port | All TCP ports | All TCP ports | All TCP ports | All TCP ports | All TCP ports | All TCP ports |
-| Customizable, rules based content delivery engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes using Standard rules engine | No | Yes using Premium rules engine |
-| Mobile device rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes using Standard rules engine | No | Yes using Premium rules engine |
+| Customizable, rules based content delivery engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ using Standard rules engine |  | ✓ using Premium rules engine |
+| Mobile device rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ using Standard rules engine |  | ✓ using Premium rules engine |
 | **Security** | | | | | | |
-| Custom Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
-| Microsoft managed rule set | No | Yes | Yes - Only default rule set 1.1 or below | No | No | No |
-| Bot protection | No | Yes | Yes - Only bot manager rule set 1.0 | No | No | No |
-| Private link connection to origin | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
-| Geo-filtering | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Token authentication | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
-| DDOS protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| DDOS protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Domain Fronting Block | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
+| Custom Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
+| Microsoft managed rule set |  | ✓ | ✓ - Only default rule set 1.1 or below |  |  |  |
+| Bot protection |  | ✓ | ✓ - Only bot manager rule set 1.0 |  |  |  |
+| Private link connection to origin |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
+| Geo-filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Token authentication |  |  |  |  |  | ✓ |
+| DDOS protection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| DDOS protection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Domain Fronting Block | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 | **Analytics and reporting** | | | | | | |
-| Monitoring Metrics | Yes (more metrics than Classic) | Yes (more metrics than Classic) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Advanced analytics/built-in reports | Yes | Yes - includes WAF report | No | No | No | Yes |
-| Raw logs - access logs and WAF logs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Health probe log | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
+| Monitoring Metrics | ✓ (more metrics than Classic) | ✓ (more metrics than Classic) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Advanced analytics/built-in reports | ✓ | ✓ - includes WAF report |  |  |  | ✓ |
+| Raw logs - access logs and WAF logs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Health probe log | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
 | **Ease of use** | | | | | | |
-| Easy integration with Azure services, such as Storage and Web Apps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Management via REST API, .NET, Node.js, or PowerShell | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
+| Easy integration with Azure services, such as Storage and Web Apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Management via REST API, .NET, de.js, or PowerShell | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 | Compression MIME types | Configurable | Configurable | Configurable | Configurable | Configurable | Configurable |
 | Compression encodings | gzip, brotli | gzip, brotli | gzip, brotli | gzip, brotli | gzip, deflate, bzip2 | gzip, deflate, bzip2, brotli |
-| Azure Policy integration | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
-| Azure Advisory integration | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
-| Managed Identities with Azure Key Vault | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
+| Azure Policy integration |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |
+| Azure Advisory integration | ✓ | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Managed Identities with Azure Key Vault | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
 | **Pricing** | | | | | | |
-| Simplified pricing | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
+| Simplified pricing | ✓ | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 
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