Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium

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Upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard to Premium for advanced capabilities and increased quota limits without any downtime. For a detailed comparison, see Tier comparison.

This guide explains how to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile. After upgrading, you'll be billed for the Azure Front Door Premium monthly base fee at an hourly rate.

Important

Downgrading from Premium to Standard isn't supported.

Prerequisite

Ensure you have an Azure Front Door Standard profile in your subscription.

Upgrade tier

  1. Navigate to the Azure Front Door Standard profile you want to upgrade and select Configuration under Settings.

    Screenshot of the configuration button under settings for an Azure Front Door Standard profile.

  2. Select Upgrade to start the upgrade process. If no WAF policies are associated with your profile, confirm to proceed.

    Screenshot of the upgrade button on the configuration page of an Azure Front Door Standard profile.

  3. If WAF policies are associated, you're directed to the Upgrade WAF policies page. Choose to copy the WAF policies or use an existing premium WAF policy. You can rename the new WAF policy copy.

    Screenshot of the upgrade WAF policies page.

    Note

    Enable managed WAF rules manually for the new premium WAF policy copies after upgrading.

  4. Select Upgrade after setting up WAF policies. Confirm by selecting Yes.

    Screenshot of the confirmation message on the upgrade WAF policies page.

  5. The upgrade process creates a new premium WAF policy and associates it with the Azure Front Door Premium profile. The process can take a few minutes.

    Screenshot of the configuration page with upgrade in progress status.

  6. Once the upgrade is complete, Tier: Premium is displayed on the Configuration page.

    Screenshot of the Azure Front Door tier upgraded to premium on the configuration page.

    Note

    Billing for Azure Front Door Premium is at an hourly rate.

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