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Azure Front Door pricing and limits

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azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/frontdoor · CDN
SEPT 2026 audit

Microsoft's combined CDN, global entry point and app delivery layer, billed on base fee plus metered data transfer.

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Entry paid planStandard tier: $35/month base fee. Premium tier: $330/month base fee. Base fees are billed hourly and only for the hours used.
RegionsGlobal service: Front Door is not deployed to an Azure region; the profile is a global resource distributed to all edge locations worldwide.
Free tierNo
CategoryCDN

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 19 criteria comparedSources last checked

Azure Front Door pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Standard tier: $35/month base fee source ↗
Pricing model
Multi-dimensional: an hourly base fee, outbound data transfer to clients, outbound transfer to origins, and per-request fees source ↗
When the free offer ends
30 days source ↗
Egress over allowance
North America (Zone 1): $0.083/GB for the first 10 TB/month, with tiered reductions at higher volumes source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Azure Front Door pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams on Azure that want CDN, global load balancing and WAF as one combined entry point rather than separate products.

Consider something else if…

Budget-sensitive at small scale — no free tier and a $35/month base fee before any traffic is a higher floor than most pay-as-you-go CDNs in this category.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Azure Front Door pricing

6 criteria
Free tierNo
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Kind of free offerFree credit
Sources (1) →
When the free offer ends30 days.
Sources (1) →
Entry paid planStandard tier: $35/month base fee. Premium tier: $330/month base fee. Base fees are billed hourly and only for the hours used.
Sources (1) →
Pricing modelMulti-dimensional: an hourly base fee, outbound data transfer to clients, outbound transfer to origins, and per-request fees.
Sources (1) →
  • Pricing — Azure Front Door ↗

    “Azure Front Door Standard/Premium billing is based on the following pricing dimensions: Base fees (i.e., fixed charge calculated on hourly basis) Outbound data transfer from edge to the client Outbound data transfer from edge to the origin Requests incoming from client to Front Door's edge location”

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Egress over allowanceNorth America (Zone 1): $0.083/GB for the first 10 TB/month, with tiered reductions at higher volumes.
Sources (1) →

Infrastructure

2 criteria
RegionsGlobal service: Front Door is not deployed to an Azure region; the profile is a global resource distributed to all edge locations worldwide.
Sources (1) →
Uptime SLANot published as a web page. Microsoft consolidated its per-service SLAs into one downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Intune; the former azure.microsoft.com SLA URLs now redirect to its licensing viewer.
Sources (1) →

CDN

1 criteria
Points of presence192 edge locations across 109 metro cities, plus four edge locations in four Azure US Government cloud regions.
Sources (1) →

Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Sources (1) →
ISO 27001Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (ISO 27001) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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HIPAAListed among Azure's compliance offerings (HIPAA) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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GDPR / data residencyFront Door is a global resource distributed to every edge location; the only location you choose stores the resource group's metadata. From the FAQ answer on which regions Front Door can be deployed in.
Sources (1) →
PCI DSSListed among Azure's compliance offerings (PCI DSS) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Sources (1) →
Encryption at restMicrosoft's security baseline for the service records that it stores no customer content at rest; in-transit encryption is on by default.
Sources (1) →
Customer-managed keysAzure Key Vault integration supported for customer keys, secrets and certificates; customer-configured, not enabled by default. Same baseline records the service stores no customer content at rest.
Sources (1) →
Role-based access controlAzure RBAC built-in roles: CDN Profile Contributor manages CDN and Front Door Standard and Premium profiles and their endpoints. Control plane; the page also lists Front Door Domain and Secret Contributor/Reader roles.
Sources (1) →
Private networking / VPCOrigins can be reached over Azure Private Link from a Front Door managed regional private network; documented for the Premium tier.
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Dedicated infrastructureShared: all customers use a common infrastructure, with per-profile configuration isolation rather than dedicated capacity.
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Azure Front Door pricing questions

How much does Azure Front Door cost?

Standard tier: $35/month base fee. Premium tier: $330/month base fee. Base fees are billed hourly and only for the hours used.

Azure Front Door Pricing · read

How does Azure Front Door charge?

Multi-dimensional: an hourly base fee, outbound data transfer to clients, outbound transfer to origins, and per-request fees.

Pricing — Azure Front Door · read

Does Azure Front Door have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free credit.

Azure Front Door pricing · read

Does the Azure Front Door free offer expire?

30 days.

Azure Front Door pricing · read

How much does Azure Front Door charge for egress?

North America (Zone 1): $0.083/GB for the first 10 TB/month, with tiered reductions at higher volumes.

Azure Front Door Pricing · read

What uptime does Azure Front Door guarantee?

Not published as a web page. Microsoft consolidated its per-service SLAs into one downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Intune; the former azure.microsoft.com SLA URLs now redirect to its licensing viewer.

Service Level Agreements (SLA) for Online Services — Microsoft · read

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