Merge pull request #290424 from duongau/afdfreshness1

Front Door - Freshness review (Batch 1 - Nov 2024)

Author: denrea

articles/active-directory-b2c/custom-domain.md

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Follow these steps to create an Azure Front Door:
 
 1. To choose the directory that contains the Azure subscription that you’d like to use for Azure Front Door and *not* the directory containing your Azure AD B2C tenant select the **Settings** icon in the top menu to switch to your Azure AD B2C tenant from the **Directories + subscriptions** menu.
 
-1. Follow the steps in [Create Front Door profile - Quick Create](../frontdoor/create-front-door-portal.md#create-front-door-profile---quick-create) to create a Front Door for your Azure AD B2C tenant using the following settings: 
+1. Follow the steps in [Create Front Door profile - Quick Create](../frontdoor/create-front-door-portal.md#create-an-azure-front-door-profile) to create a Front Door for your Azure AD B2C tenant using the following settings: 
 
 
     |Key  |Value  |
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ To create a CNAME record for your custom domain:
 The **default-route** routes the traffic from the client to Azure Front Door. Then, Azure Front Door uses your configuration to send the traffic to Azure AD B2C. Follow these steps to enable the default-route.
 
 1. Select **Front Door manager**.
-1. To add enable the **default-route**, first expand an endpoint from the list of endpoints in the Front Door manager. Then, select the **default-route**. 
+1. To enable the **default-route**, first expand an endpoint from the list of endpoints in the Front Door manager. Then, select the **default-route**. 
 
     The following screenshot shows how to select the default-route.
 

articles/frontdoor/blue-green-deployment.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Azure Front Door is Microsoft's modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that
     > [!NOTE]
     > Initially, set the weight of the current origin higher than the new origin to ensure most traffic is routed to the current origin. Gradually increase the weight of the new origin and decrease the weight of the current origin as you test. The total weight doesn't need to be 100, but it helps visualize traffic distribution. The example sets the existing origin to receive three times as much traffic as the new origin.
 
-1. Enable session affinity if your application requires it. For more information, see [Session affinity](routing-methods.md#session-affinity).
+1. Enable session affinity if your application requires it. For more information, see [Session affinity](routing-methods.md). 
 
     > [!NOTE]
     > *Session affinity* ensures the end user is routed to the same origin after the first request. Enable this feature based on your application and the type of enhancements being rolled out. For major revisions, enable session affinity to keep users on the new codebase. For minor enhancements, you can leave session affinity disabled. When in doubt, enable session affinity.

articles/frontdoor/create-front-door-portal.md

@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ services: frontdoor
 author: duongau
 ms.service: azure-frontdoor
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 10/13/2023
+ms.date: 11/12/2024
 ms.author: duau
 ---
 
 # Comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN services
 
-Azure Front Door and Azure CDN are both Azure services that offer global content delivery with intelligent routing and caching capabilities at the application layer. Both services can be used to optimize and accelerate your applications by providing a globally distributed network of points of presence (POP) close to your users. Both services also offer a variety of features to help you secure your applications from malicious attacks and to help you monitor your application's health and performance.
+Azure Front Door and Azure CDN are both Azure services that offer global content delivery with intelligent routing and caching capabilities at the application layer. Both services can be used to optimize and accelerate your applications by providing a globally distributed network of points of presence (POP) close to your users. Both services also offer various features to help you secure your applications from malicious attacks and to help you monitor your application's health and performance.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/front-door-cdn-comparison/architecture.png" alt-text="Diagram of Azure Front Door architecture.":::
 
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ The following table provides a comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
 | 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
-| Cache manage (purge, rules, and compression) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Cache management (purge, rules, and compression) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 | Fast purge |  |  |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |
-| Asset pre-loading |  |  |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Asset preloading |  |  |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |
 | Cache behavior settings | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ - using standard rules engine | ✓ | ✓ |
 | **Routing** | | | | | | |
 | Origin load balancing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ The following table provides a comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
 | Mobile device rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ using Standard rules engine |  | ✓ using Premium rules engine |
 | **Security** | | | | | | |
 | Custom Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |
-| Microsoft managed rule set |  | ✓ | ✓ - Only default rule set 1.1 or below |  |  |  |
+| Microsoft managed rule set |  | ✓ | ✓ - Only default rule set 1.1 or less |  |  |  |
 | Bot protection |  | ✓ | ✓ - Only bot manager rule set 1.0 |  |  |  |
 | Private link connection to origin |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
 | Geo-filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
@@ -86,14 +86,12 @@ The following table provides a comparison between Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
 ## Services on retirement path
 The following table lists services that are on retirement path, frequently asked questions regarding retirement, and migration guidance.
 
-| Details | Front Door (classic) | CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) | CDN Standard from Akamai | CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio
+| Details | Front Door (classic) | CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) | CDN Standard from Akamai | CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| Retirement Date | March 31, 2027 | September 30, 2027 | December 31, 2023 | November 4, 2025
-| Date till new resources can be created | March 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | Service is already retired | January 15, 2025
-| Documentation | [Azure update](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-front-door-classic-will-be-retired-on-31-march-2027/), [FAQ](classic-retirement-faq.md) | [Azure update](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/v2/Azure-CDN-Standard-from-Microsoft-classic-will-be-retired-on-30-September-2027), [FAQ](../cdn/classic-cdn-retirement-faq.md) | [FAQ](../cdn/akamai-retirement-faq.md)|[FAQ](../cdn/edgio-retirement-faq.md)
-| Migration | [Considerations](tier-migration.md), [Step-by-step instructions](migrate-tier.md) | [Considerations](../cdn/tier-migration.md), [Step-by-step instructions](../cdn/migrate-tier.md) | Service is already retired | [Step-by-step instructions](migrate-cdn-to-front-door.md)
-
-
+| Retirement Date | March 31, 2027 | September 30, 2027 | December 31, 2023 | November 4, 2025 |
+| Date until new resources can be created | March 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | Service is already retired | January 15, 2025 |
+| Documentation | [Azure update](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-front-door-classic-will-be-retired-on-31-march-2027/), [FAQ](classic-retirement-faq.md) | [Azure update](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/v2/Azure-CDN-Standard-from-Microsoft-classic-will-be-retired-on-30-September-2027), [FAQ](../cdn/classic-cdn-retirement-faq.md) | [FAQ](../cdn/akamai-retirement-faq.md)|[FAQ](../cdn/edgio-retirement-faq.md) |
+| Migration | [Considerations](tier-migration.md), [Step-by-step instructions](migrate-tier.md) | [Considerations](../cdn/tier-migration.md), [Step-by-step instructions](../cdn/migrate-tier.md) | Service is already retired | [Step-by-step instructions](migrate-cdn-to-front-door.md) |
 
 ## Next steps
 

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

@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ services: frontdoor
 author: duongau
 ms.service: azure-frontdoor
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 10/12/2023
+ms.date: 11/12/2024
 ms.author: duau
 # Customer intent: As an IT admin, I want to learn about Front Door and what I can use it for.
 ---
 
 # What is Azure Front Door?
 
-Whether you’re delivering content and files or building global apps and APIs, Azure Front Door can help you deliver higher availability, lower latency, greater scale, and more secure experiences to your users wherever they are.  
+Whether you're delivering content and files or developing global applications and APIs, Azure Front Door enhances your user experience by providing higher availability, reduced latency, increased scalability, and improved security, no matter where your users are located. 
 
-Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that provides fast, reliable, and secure access between your users and your applications’ static and dynamic web content across the globe. Azure Front Door delivers your content using Microsoft’s global edge network with hundreds of [global and local points of presence (PoPs)](edge-locations-by-region.md) distributed around the world close to both your enterprise and consumer end users.
+Azure Front Door is Microsoft's advanced cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to your applications' static and dynamic web content globally. By using Microsoft's extensive global edge network, Azure Front Door ensures efficient content delivery through numerous [global and local points of presence (PoPs)](edge-locations-by-region.md) strategically positioned close to both enterprise and consumer end users.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/overview/front-door-overview.png" alt-text="Diagram of Azure Front Door routing user traffic to endpoints." lightbox="./media/overview/front-door-overview-expanded.png":::
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Azure Front Door enables internet-facing application to:
 
 Scale out and improve performance of your applications and content using Microsoft’s global Cloud CDN and WAN.
 
-* Leverage over [118 edge locations](edge-locations-by-region.md) across 100 metro cities connected to Azure using a private enterprise-grade WAN and improve latency for apps by up to 3 times.
+* Uses over [118 edge locations](edge-locations-by-region.md) across 100 metro cities connected to Azure using a private enterprise-grade WAN and improve latency for apps by up to three times.
 
 * Accelerate application performance by using Front Door’s [anycast](front-door-traffic-acceleration.md#select-the-front-door-edge-location-for-the-request-anycast) network and [split TCP](front-door-traffic-acceleration.md#connect-to-the-front-door-edge-location-split-tcp) connections.
 
@@ -50,19 +50,19 @@ Scale out and improve performance of your applications and content using Microso
 
 Modernize your internet first applications on Azure with Cloud Native experiences
 
-* Integrate with DevOps friendly command line tools across SDKs of different languages, Bicep, ARM templates, CLI and PowerShell.
+* Integrate with DevOps friendly command line tools across SDKs of different languages, Bicep, ARM templates, CLI, and PowerShell.
 
 * Define your own [custom domain](standard-premium/how-to-add-custom-domain.md) with flexible domain validation.
 
 * Load balance and route traffic across [origins](origin.md) and use intelligent [health probe](health-probes.md) monitoring across apps or content hosted in Azure or anywhere.
 
-* Integrate with other Azure services such as DNS, Web Apps, Storage and many more for domain and origin management.
+* Integrate with other Azure services such as DNS, Web Apps, Storage, and many more for domain and origin management.
 
 * Move your routing business logic to the edge with [enhanced rules engine](front-door-rules-engine.md) capabilities including regular expressions and server variables.
 
 * Analyze [built-in reports](standard-premium/how-to-reports.md) with an all-in-one dashboard for both Front Door and security patterns.
 
-* [Monitoring your Front Door traffic in real time](standard-premium/how-to-monitor-metrics.md), and configure alerts that integrate with Azure Monitor.
+* [Monitor your Front Door traffic in real time](standard-premium/how-to-monitor-metrics.md), and configure alerts that integrate with Azure Monitor.
 
 * [Log each Front Door request](standard-premium/how-to-logs.md) and failed health probes.
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Modernize your internet first applications on Azure with Cloud Native experience
 
 * Low entry fee and a simplified cost model that reduces billing complexity by having fewer meters needed to plan for.
 
-* Azure to Front Door integrated egress pricing that removes the separate egress charge from Azure regions to Azure Front Door. Refer to [Azure Front Door pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/frontdoor/) for more details.
+* Azure to Front Door integrated egress pricing that removes the separate egress charge from Azure regions to Azure Front Door. For more information, see [Azure Front Door pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/frontdoor/).
 
 ### Intelligent secure internet perimeter
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ For a comparison of supported features in Azure Front Door, see [Tier comparison
 
 ## Where is the service available?
 
-Azure Front Door Standard, Premium and Classic tiers are available in Microsoft Azure (Commercial) and Microsoft Azure Government (US).
+Azure Front Door Standard, Premium, and Classic tiers are available in Microsoft Azure (Commercial) and Microsoft Azure Government (US).
 
 ## Pricing