Azure Front Door
Global load balancing and CDN delivery with a base fee plus regional usage charges.
Maintainer's note
The base fee is steep for a small site. The surrounding Azure features need to earn their place in the budget.
Pricing & conditions
Standard $35/mo + usageSubscription pricing
- Standard is $35/month per profile; Premium is $330/month, billed for each hour or partial hour deployed. Premium includes managed WAF rules and Private Link.
- First 10 TB/month to clients: North America and Europe $0.083/GB; Asia Pacific $0.115/GB; Korea $0.14/GB. Rates fall in higher volume bands.
- Requests and edge-to-origin transfer are extra. Standard requests start at $0.009 per 10,000 in North America/Europe and $0.0181 in Korea, through 250 million requests.
- Front Door does not charge for origin-to-edge transfer. Eligible new Azure customers can use a one-time $200 credit within 30 days.
Network & delivery
- Network
- Microsoft lists 192 edge locations across 109 metro areas, including Seoul, plus a separate US Government footprint.
- Video delivery
- Live and on-demand streaming
- Free tier / trial
- $200 new-customer Azure credit · 30 days