Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of Azure Front Door, its latest content delivery network (CDN) service for securing and supporting high ...

Microsoft Azure services were hit by glitches for more than an hour after issues with Azure Front Door (AFD). One of Microsoft's content delivery networks (CDN), AFD is not to be confused with ...

New Azure Front Door Standard and Premium preview offerings compared, with Premium being optimized for security. (Source: Feb. 18 Microsoft Azure blog post) ...

Last month, Rules Engine for Azure Front Door and Content Delivery Network entered the preview phase. Today, the capability has become generally available for both the aforementioned services.

The company says the incident started around 18:22 UTC and impacted services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD), its modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN).

There is no wiggle room in that date, nor is there any in the intermediate dates for locking of profiles (Jan. 3) and blocking an automatic migration to Azure Front Door (Jan. 6).

Azure WAF can be deployed in a single click within minutes with Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) service from Microsoft.