What do I put in front of my web application to secure it?

this a recurrent question from my customers, “I want to secure my application, how can I do it?”

So, this quick post is willing to show the different possibilities that I try to explain to them…

	Azure Application Gateway	Azure Traffic Manager	Azure Front Door	Azure CDN
Scope	Regional	Global	Global	Global
Protocols	HTTP	Any	HTTP	HTTP
VNet	Possibility to create inside VNet	Outside	Outside	Outside
Health Probe	HTTP based / Response from 200 to 399	HTTP Based / Response Custom	HTTP Based / Response 200
Caching			Up to 8 MB	Designed for
Type	Web Traffic Load Balancer	DNS based Load Balancer	Application delivery Network	CDN
Designed For	Reverse Proxy & WAF	Scalable Entry Point	Sclalabe & Security Entrypoint	Serve Static content
Backend	Internal or External	External	External	External
Routing Method	Host Header or Path based	Priority, Weight, Performance, Geo…	Priority, Weight, Host Header, Path based

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