Does Azure WAF bot protection work on Azure Front Door Classic?

Adam Ahmed 21 Reputation points
2022-03-21T18:00:25.433+00:00

Does Azure WAF bot protection work on Azure Front Door Classic or do you need to upgrade to premium?

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Azure Front Door
An Azure service that provides a cloud content delivery network with threat protection.
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  1. SaiKishor-MSFT 17,231 Reputation points
    2022-03-22T20:46:37.453+00:00

    @Adam Ahmed Upon further investigation and reaching out to the PM/PG internally regarding this, they confirmed that some basic Bot Protection rules can be enabled for Classic AFD - https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-policy-configure-bot-protection

    I apologize for not adding/mentioning this earlier. Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions and we will be glad to assist you further. Thank you!

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  1. SaiKishor-MSFT 17,231 Reputation points
    2022-03-22T09:08:54.253+00:00

    @Adam Ahmed Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A. I understand that you want to know if Azure WAF Bot Protection works with Azure FD Classic.

    Azure WAF Bot Protection works with Azure FD Standard/Premium only. Please do let us know if you have any further questions. Thank you!

    Please let us know if you have any further questions and we will be glad to assist you further. Thank you!

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  2. Adam Ahmed 21 Reputation points
    2022-03-22T15:04:40.683+00:00

    @SaiKishor-MSFT Thank you for the answer.

    I do have a follow up question then, is there a way to directly upgrade our current FD (classic) to FD Premium with all the same configuration?

    We have several certificates setup for specific FD frontends that is being used in our production live service.

    Is there a way to switch/upgrade our Frontdoor (classic) to Premium without losing any of those certificates and configuration while having zero (or minimal) impact to our production live service?

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