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Azure Front Door vs Bunny CDN

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Azure Front Door and Bunny CDN built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Azure Front Door if…

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

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Bunny CDN if…

Cost-sensitive sites serving mostly Europe/North America traffic — $0.01/GB with no request fees and a $1 monthly floor is close to the cheapest entry point in this category.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Azure Front Door: 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.
  • Bunny CDN: Traffic skews heavily to the Middle East or Africa — the regional rate there is six times the Europe/North America price.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Azure Front Door alternatives · Bunny CDN alternatives

14 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionAzure Front DoorBunny CDN
Pricing
Free tierNoNo
Kind of free offerFree creditFree trial
When the free offer ends
30 days.
14 days.
Entry paid plan
Standard tier: $35/month base fee. Premium tier: $330/month base fee. Base fees are billed hourly and only for the hours used.
$1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top.
Pricing modelMulti-dimensional: an hourly base fee, outbound data transfer to clients, outbound transfer to origins, and per-request fees.Pay-as-you-go with a $1/month minimum. No request fees — billed only on bandwidth consumed.
Egress over allowance
North America (Zone 1): $0.083/GB for the first 10 TB/month, with tiered reductions at higher volumes.
$0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa).
Infrastructure
RegionsGlobal service: Front Door is not deployed to an Azure region; the profile is a global resource distributed to all edge locations worldwide.Global anycast network spanning 6 continents and 77 countries, with 119 PoPs grouped on the network map as Europe, North America, LATAM, Asia, Oceania and Middle East & Africa.
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.99.99% uptime guarantee, with SLA credits on a sliding scale from 99.98% down. One SLA covers the whole bunny.net platform.
CDN
Points of presence
192 edge locations across 109 metro cities, plus four edge locations in four Azure US Government cloud regions.
119 points of presence on the standard network, plus a 10-PoP volume network.
Compliance
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.ISO 27001 certified information security management; the Trust Center lists ISO 27001 under Compliance and supplies the certificate on request.
GDPR / data residency
Front 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.
EU and EEA routing filters pin a Pull Zone to 24 PoPs in EU member states or 26 across the EEA, for GDPR and data-residency requirements.
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.Magic Containers persistent volumes: all persistent data is AES encrypted by default. Scope is Magic Containers volumes, not the CDN cache. Feature-list bullet on the Magic Containers persistent-volumes docs page.
Customer-managed keys
Azure 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.
Not offered on the S3-compatible Bunny Storage API: SSE and SSE-C server-side encryption are listed as unsupported. Scope: Bunny Storage S3 API; no key-management statement is published for the CDN itself.
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.Five account permissions assignable per team member in any combination: Manage zones, Billing & legal, Support tickets, Abuse center, Manage users.
Dedicated infrastructureShared: all customers use a common infrastructure, with per-profile configuration isolation rather than dedicated capacity.bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control; this describes bunny.net's own estate, not a customer-level option. Trust Center FAQ answer on why infrastructure providers are not listed as subprocessors.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

Azure Front Door
Free credit
Bunny CDN
Free trial
Sources (2) →

When the free offer ends

Azure Front Door

30 days.

Bunny CDN

14 days.

Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

Azure Front Door
Standard tier: $35/month base fee. Premium tier: $330/month base fee. Base fees are billed hourly and only for the hours used.
Bunny CDN
$1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Azure Front Door
Multi-dimensional: an hourly base fee, outbound data transfer to clients, outbound transfer to origins, and per-request fees.
Bunny CDN
Pay-as-you-go with a $1/month minimum. No request fees — billed only on bandwidth consumed.
Sources (2) →
  • 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”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Bunny CDN Pricing ↗

    “$1 monthly minimum. No Request Fees.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Egress over allowance

Azure Front Door
North America (Zone 1): $0.083/GB for the first 10 TB/month, with tiered reductions at higher volumes.
Bunny CDN
$0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa).
Sources (2) →

Regions

Azure Front Door
Global service: Front Door is not deployed to an Azure region; the profile is a global resource distributed to all edge locations worldwide.
Bunny CDN
Global anycast network spanning 6 continents and 77 countries, with 119 PoPs grouped on the network map as Europe, North America, LATAM, Asia, Oceania and Middle East & Africa.
Sources (2) →

Uptime SLA

Azure Front Door
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.
Bunny CDN
99.99% uptime guarantee, with SLA credits on a sliding scale from 99.98% down. One SLA covers the whole bunny.net platform.
Sources (2) →
  • Service Level Agreements (SLA) for Online Services — Microsoft ↗

    “the service level agreements (sla) describe microsoft's commitments for uptime and connectivity for microsoft online services. the current and archived editions of the sla are available for download and they cover azure, dynamics 365, office 365, and intune.”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official site · Report a correction

  • bunny.net SLA ↗

    “99.99% uptime guarantee the bunny.net platform was designed with performance and stability in mind. [...] in the event of monthly availability falling below our guarantees, your account will be eligible for sla credits based on your monthly usage.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

Points of presence

Azure Front Door

192 edge locations across 109 metro cities, plus four edge locations in four Azure US Government cloud regions.

Bunny CDN

119 points of presence on the standard network, plus a 10-PoP volume network.

Sources (2) →

ISO 27001

Azure Front Door
Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (ISO 27001) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Bunny CDN
ISO 27001 certified information security management; the Trust Center lists ISO 27001 under Compliance and supplies the certificate on request.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Azure Front Door
Front 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.
Bunny CDN
EU and EEA routing filters pin a Pull Zone to 24 PoPs in EU member states or 26 across the EEA, for GDPR and data-residency requirements.
Sources (2) →
  • Azure Front Door Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | Microsoft Learn ↗

    “The only location you choose when you create a Front Door is the location of the resource group, which determines where the resource group's metadata is stored. The Front Door profile is a global resource and its configuration is distributed to all edge locations worldwide.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Routing Filters - bunny.net Documentation ↗

    “This is primarily useful for GDPR compliance and data residency requirements where you need to ensure user data stays within specific geographic boundaries. [...] Routes all traffic exclusively through 24 PoPs within EU member states [...] Routes all traffic exclusively through 26 PoPs, covering every EU PoP plus Iceland and Norway”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Encryption at rest

Azure Front Door
Microsoft's security baseline for the service records that it stores no customer content at rest; in-transit encryption is on by default.
Bunny CDN
Magic Containers persistent volumes: all persistent data is AES encrypted by default. Scope is Magic Containers volumes, not the CDN cache. Feature-list bullet on the Magic Containers persistent-volumes docs page.
Sources (2) →

Customer-managed keys

Azure Front Door
Azure 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.
Bunny CDN
Not offered on the S3-compatible Bunny Storage API: SSE and SSE-C server-side encryption are listed as unsupported. Scope: Bunny Storage S3 API; no key-management statement is published for the CDN itself.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Azure Front Door
Azure 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.
Bunny CDN
Five account permissions assignable per team member in any combination: Manage zones, Billing & legal, Support tickets, Abuse center, Manage users.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

Azure Front Door
Shared: all customers use a common infrastructure, with per-profile configuration isolation rather than dedicated capacity.
Bunny CDN
bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control; this describes bunny.net's own estate, not a customer-level option. Trust Center FAQ answer on why infrastructure providers are not listed as subprocessors.
Sources (2) →
  • Azure Front Door Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | Microsoft Learn ↗

    “It uses a common infrastructure that all its customers share, but you can customize your own Front Door profile to configure your application's specific requirements. [...] Other customers' configurations can't affect your Front Door configuration, which is isolated from theirs.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • BunnyWay d.o.o | Trust Center ↗

    “bunny.net operates exclusively on dedicated infrastructure under its own control. Infrastructure and network providers do not process customer data on bunny.net's behalf and do not have access to bunny.net servers or customer data stored on those systems.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

What the free plan includesBunny CDN: A 14-day trial with no credit card; there is no ongoing free plan.
Credit card to startBunny CDN: No
Image optimizationBunny CDN: Bunny Optimizer, a separate image processing product, at a fixed $9.5/month per website regardless of traffic.
SOC 2Azure Front Door: Listed 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.
HIPAAAzure Front Door: Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (HIPAA) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
PCI DSSAzure Front Door: Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (PCI DSS) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Private networking / VPCAzure Front Door: Origins can be reached over Azure Private Link from a Front Door managed regional private network; documented for the Premium tier.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Azure Front Door or Bunny CDN?

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

Bunny CDN: $1 monthly minimum on the pay-as-you-go CDN plan — all features are included at that price, with regional bandwidth billed on top.

Egress over allowance: Azure Front Door or Bunny CDN?

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

Bunny CDN: $0.01/GB (Europe & North America), $0.03/GB (Asia & Oceania), $0.045/GB (South America), $0.06/GB (Middle East & Africa).

Should I choose Azure Front Door or Bunny CDN?

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

Pick Bunny CDN if Cost-sensitive sites serving mostly Europe/North America traffic — $0.01/GB with no request fees and a $1 monthly floor is close to the cheapest entry point in this category.

Provider pages

Azure Front DoorMicrosoft's combined CDN, global entry point and app delivery layer, billed on base fee plus metered data transfer.Bunny CDNPay-as-you-go CDN with no request fees, a $1/month minimum, and regional bandwidth pricing starting at $0.01/GB.

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Comments

Every page here is sourced and dated.