Azure Load Balancer vs Application Gateway vs Traffic Manager vs Front Door
Jon Bonso2023-03-20T03:21:26+00:00Load Balancer Application Gateway Traffic Manager Front Door Service Network load balancer. Web traffic load balancer. DNS-based traffic load balancer. Global application delivery Network Protocols Layer 4 (TCP or UDP) Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) Layer 7 (DNS) Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) Type Internal and Public Standard and WAF - Standard and Premium Routing Hash-based, Source IP affinity Path-based Performance, Weighted, Priority, Geographic, MultiValue, Subnet Latency, Priority, Weighted, Session Affinity Global/Regional Service Global Regional Global Global Recommended Traffic Non-HTTP(S) HTTP(S) Non-HTTP(S) HTTP(S) Endpoints NIC (VM/VMSS), IP address IP address/FQDN, Virtual machine/VMSS, App services Cloud service, App service/slot, Public IP address App service, [...]