🆚 Azure Front Door vs. Varnish

📈 Varnish is much more popular than Azure Front Door.
🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Azure Front Door is more popular in the Dominican Republic, Qatar, and Kuwait.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Azure Front Door

Varnish

Type

Content delivery network

Caching solution

About

Azure Front Door is is a cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

Varnish Cache is an open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments.

It uses the VCL configuration language compiled to native C code, serves cached responses in three system calls, provides official container images and a Helm chart for Kubernetes, outputs structured JSON logs, and supports VMOD extension modules.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Stockholm, Sweden

Website

azure.microsoft.com

varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free version ❌

Standard $35/month

Premium $330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB) $0.083/GB

10–50 TB $0.066/GB

50–150 TB $0.057/GB

Free version ✔️ Open source

Varnish Enterprise Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 6 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Azure Front Door is more popular in the Dominican Republic, Qatar, and Kuwait.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Denmark

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

Japan

Belgium

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Switzerland in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular than Azure Front Door in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

General News

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Sports

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#88

#91

#110

#333

Name

Rank

#42

#44

#45

#52

#53