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afd Front Door profile

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium profile. CAF uses 'cdnp' for CDN profiles of the same type.

Naming constraints

CAF abbreviationafd
Resource typeMicrosoft.Cdn/profiles
Length1–260 characters
CaseMixed case
Allowed charactersAlphanumerics and hyphens. Start and end with alphanumeric.
Uniqueness Resource group
SeparatorHyphen
Watch out: The profile name is scoped to the resource group, but its endpoints (<endpoint>-<hash>.z01.azurefd.net) are global.

Source: Microsoft Learn, “Naming rules and restrictions for Azure resources”, checked October 2026. Abbreviation from the Cloud Adoption Framework.

Example & copy-ready

A worked name for workload app, env prod, region weu, instance 001.

Example name
afd-app-prod-weu-001 Valid
Validation regex for CI checks or pre-commit hooks (.NET and JavaScript) 
^(?=.{1,260}$)[A-Za-z0-9](?:[A-Za-z0-9-]*[A-Za-z0-9])?$
Bicep naming expression 
var name = take('afd-${workload}-${env}-${region}-${instance}', 260)
Terraform local 
locals {
  name = substr(join("-", compact(["afd", var.workload, var.env, var.region, var.instance])), 0, 260)
}

Azure Policy can't evaluate regular expressions, so a policy can check the afd prefix but not the full format. Run the regex in your pipeline, or audit existing names on a schedule.

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Uniqueness scope

Unique within the parent resource group. The same name can be reused in a different resource group.

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