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AZ-700: What Is the Best Azure Service for Load Balancing HTTPS Traffic with Caching and WAF?

Learn which Azure networking service provides global availability, caching, WAF support, and private connectivity for backend resources. Discover why Azure Front Door is the ideal choice for load balancing HTTPS traffic in your Azure environment.

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Question

You have an Azure subscription.
You need to recommend an Azure networking service to load balance HTTPS traffic to the backend application. The solution must meet the following requirements:

  • Is globally available
  • Has caching functionality
  • Supports Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Provides private connectivity to the backend resources

What should you recommend?

A. Azure Application Gateway
B. Azure Front Door
C. Azure Load Balancer
D. Azure Traffic Manager

Answer

B. Azure Front Door

Explanation

Azure Front Door is a global service with edge location around the world, has WAF capabilities, can do caching at the edge and can enable a private link to backend resources.
Azure Load Balancer does not have WAF capabilities, or caching. Application Gateway does not have any caching capabilities. Traffic Manager does not have WAF or private connectivity to backend resources.

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