# Vendor facets — Microsoft Azure Front Door. Global CDN and application delivery with WAF, bot
# manager rules, a rules engine and Private Link origins. No agent-facing artifact of any kind: no maps.
vendor: microsoft-azure-front-door
name: Azure Front Door
website: https://azure.microsoft.com/products/frontdoor/
areas:
- cdn
registry_keys: []
rubric_schema_version: 0.22.0
generated: '2026-09-25'
features_refreshed: '2026-09-25'
basis: capability
summary: >-
  Azure Front Door moves no Kin Score check. It accelerates and protects delivery with edge TLS, caching,
  L3–7 DDoS protection, WAF bot-manager rules and a rules engine. The fetched documentation describes
  no AI-crawler consent signal, Web Bot Auth, agent monetization, security.txt or llms.txt. A provider
  behind Front Door scores exactly what its own published artifacts earn.
features:
- id: front-door-delivery
  name: Azure Front Door delivery and WAF
  description: >-
    118+ edge locations with TLS offload, managed certificates, caching, origin load balancing, a rules
    engine, WAF and bot manager rules based on Microsoft Threat Intelligence.
  source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview
  tier: paid
maps: []
earns_nothing:
- feature: front-door-delivery
  check: servers_resolvable
  layer: composite
  why: Delivery, TLS, DDoS and bot filtering change nothing any check reads.
out_of_reach:
  checks:
  - consent_identity
  - agentic_commerce
  - well_known_published
  - llms_txt_published
  - mcp_server
  - rate_limit_signal
  - contract_present
  note: Nothing on the fetched pages publishes to the provider's surface.
surface:
  agent_readiness:
    reachable: 0
    total: 139
hard_rule: >-
  A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes
  the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership
  can.
method: searched
source:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview
measured:
  cohort:
    method: vendors-catalog.json detections (CNAME / header / URL shape / markup), never a name match
    detected: 0
    in_baseline: 0
  control:
    basis: providers earning contract_present + documentation_present + api_reference_present, minus the
      cohort
    n: 5216
  metric: >-
    cohort_pct / control_pct = mean share of the check's points earned (derived and platform credit weighted),
    x100
  measured_on: '2026-09-25'
  status: 'not measurable: 0 detected customers clear the baseline (need 20)'
simulation:
  simulated_on: '2026-09-25'
  rubric: 0.23.0
  population: providers publishing a contract (contract_present earned), replayable exactly
  providers: 8977
  providers_unreplayable: 987
  providers_moved: 0
  conditional_rows: excluded (they depend on what the API already does)
  composite_lift:
    median: 0.0
    p75: 0.0
    p90: 0.0
    max: 0.0
    mean_among_movers: 0.0
  agent_readiness_lift:
    median: 0.0
    p75: 0.0
    p90: 0.0
    max: 0.0
    mean_among_movers: 0.0
  facet_lift_median_among_movers: {}
  composite_band_moves: {}
  agent_readiness_band_moves: {}
  method: >-
    each provider's own kin/checks file, the vendor's maps at their stated credit, the scorer's composite
    formula; from -> to, nothing written