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- Free allowance
- No free tier for the L4 question: Front Door terminates SSL at the edge and only supports HTTP/1.1 from the edge to the origin.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe origin leg is HTTP/1.1 only; there is no protocol field that accepts UDP
- Evidence
- inferred2 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | No free tier for the L4 question: Front Door terminates SSL at the edge and only supports HTTP/1.1 from the edge to the origin. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | unverified (base and data rates not read) |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the origin leg is HTTP/1.1 only; there is no protocol field that accepts UDP source
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| Binding | write-gated Volume never becomes the question: the service cannot forward UDP at any tier, so 1 TiB/month of UDP has no path through it. |
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| Identity | card An Azure subscription with billing enabled. |
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| Egress | No UDP allowance exists. The product is billed per request and per GB of HTTP(S) delivery, with no L4 forwarding at any price.; ingress: http-only free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | rest, cli profiles, endpoints, routes and origin groups over HTTP and HTTPS |
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| Tooling | Azure portal, CLI or ARM/Bicep |
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| Composes with | chains with HTTP origins only; it cannot expose a WireGuard or game UDP endpoint |
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| Reliability | none recorded |
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| Notes | Every capability on the overview page is HTTP: caching, SSL offload, HTTP/2, rules engine. No L4 listener exists in the model. |
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| Evidence note | inferred No Front Door page read states a UDP forwarding feature, and the origin leg is documented as HTTP/1.1 only. Confirming the negative needs the Front Door 'supported protocols' reference, which was not read. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 6
| wg path | none |
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| wg detail | There is no UDP forwarding to configure, so no WireGuard datagram can be carried. |
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| ingress | http-only |
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| volume stated | No UDP allowance exists. The product is billed per request and per GB of HTTP(S) delivery, with no L4 forwarding at any price. |
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| bytes transit | yes |
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| transit note | HTTP bytes only; UDP is not carried |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer