Microsoft Azure Cdn

Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed edge locations to deliver it to users with maximum throughput and minimum latency. The product is operated through the Microsoft.Cdn Azure Resource Manager resource provider, a 115-operation REST contract on management.azure.com that manages CDN profiles, delivery endpoints, origins, origin groups, custom domains and web application firewall policies, and that also serves the Azure Front Door Standard and Premium resource family. Authentication is Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 with authorization decided by Azure RBAC. Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) is on a published retirement path: it stopped accepting new instances in 2025 and retires on 30 September 2027, with Microsoft directing customers to Azure Front Door and shipping a validate/migrate/commit API path for the move.

Microsoft Azure Cdn publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Azure CDN Management API (Microsoft.Cdn), microsoft-azure-cdn Operations API, and microsoft-azure-cdn Profiles API. Tagged areas include CDN, Edge, Caching, Cloud Infrastructure, and Networking.

Microsoft Azure Cdn’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, pricing, support, engineering blog, documentation, API reference, and 38 more developer resources.

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72.1/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CDN Edge Caching Cloud Infrastructure Networking Web Performance Azure Content Delivery Web Application Firewall

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 72.1/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 8.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 15

Access Clarity 15.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 8.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Azure CDN Management API (Microsoft.Cdn)

The contract Microsoft publishes for the Microsoft.Cdn resource provider, harvested verbatim from Azure/azure-rest-api-specs at api-version 2026-07-01. Swagger 2.0, 73 paths, 11...

microsoft-azure-cdn Operations API

Operations operations

microsoft-azure-cdn Profiles API

Profiles operations

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure CDN REST Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure CDN REST Operations Profiles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure CDN REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Microsoft Azure Cdn MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Cdn Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Cdn Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Cdn Trust Center

GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Scopes

2 scopes · implicit

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Azure Cdn Agentic Access

122 operations · 78 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

122 operations · 78 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conventions

Idempotency

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

CLI

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

Examples

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

Security

SecurityTxt

Scroll for all 8

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

name: Microsoft Azure Cdn
aid: microsoft-azure-cdn
description: 'Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed edge locations to deliver
  it to users with maximum throughput and minimum latency. The product is operated through the Microsoft.Cdn Azure Resource
  Manager resource provider, a 115-operation REST contract on management.azure.com that manages CDN profiles, delivery endpoints,
  origins, origin groups, custom domains and web application firewall policies, and that also serves the Azure Front Door
  Standard and Premium resource family. Authentication is Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 with authorization decided by Azure
  RBAC. Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) is on a published retirement path: it stopped accepting new instances
  in 2025 and retires on 30 September 2027, with Microsoft directing customers to Azure Front Door and shipping a validate/migrate/commit
  API path for the move.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-azure-cdn.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-cdn/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- CDN
- Edge
- Caching
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Networking
- Web Performance
- Azure
- Content Delivery
- Web Application Firewall
tags_raw:
- Content Delivery Network
- CDN
- Edge
- Caching
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Networking
- Web Performance
- Azure
- Content Delivery
- Web Application Firewall
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-09-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - azure/azure-rest-api-specs
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
apis:
- aid: microsoft-azure-cdn:microsoft-azure-cdn-management-api
  name: Azure CDN Management API (Microsoft.Cdn)
  description: The contract Microsoft publishes for the Microsoft.Cdn resource provider, harvested verbatim from Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
    at api-version 2026-07-01. Swagger 2.0, 73 paths, 115 operations, 387 definitions, 16 tags, 56 long-running operations,
    26 paged operations, and 123 provider-published request/response examples.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Profiles
  - Origins
  - Custom Domains
  - Routes
  - Rules
  - Security Policies
  - Web Application Firewall
  tags_raw:
  - Profiles
  - Endpoints
  - Origins
  - Custom Domains
  - Routes
  - Rules
  - Security Policies
  - Web Application Firewall
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-cdn-management-openapi.json
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted, as published)
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/main/specification/cdn/resource-manager/Microsoft.Cdn/Cdn/stable/2026-07-01/openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/profiles
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/microsoft-azure-cdn-examples.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/microsoft-azure-cdn-management-overlay.yaml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/microsoft-azure-cdn-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/microsoft-azure-cdn-data-model.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cdn/resource-manager/Microsoft.Cdn/Cdn/stable/2026-07-01
- aid: microsoft-azure-cdn:microsoft-azure-cdn-operations-api
  name: microsoft-azure-cdn Operations API
  description: Operations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-cdn-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/profiles
- aid: microsoft-azure-cdn:microsoft-azure-cdn-profiles-api
  name: microsoft-azure-cdn Profiles API
  description: Profiles operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Profiles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-cdn-profiles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/profiles
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/microsoft-azure-cdn-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/microsoft-azure-cdn-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-azure-cdn-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-azure-cdn-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-azure-cdn-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/microsoft-azure-cdn-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Support
  url: https://support.microsoft.com/
- url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/
  type: Blog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cdn/profiles
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/create-front-door-portal
- type: SignUp
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/microsoft-azure-cdn-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/microsoft-azure-cdn-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/microsoft-azure-cdn-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/microsoft-azure-cdn-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/microsoft-azure-cdn-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/microsoft-azure-cdn-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/microsoft-azure-cdn-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/microsoft-azure-cdn-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/microsoft-azure-cdn-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/
- type: Security
  url: security/microsoft-azure-cdn-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-cdn-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-cdn-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/microsoft-azure-cdn-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/microsoft-azure-cdn-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/microsoft-azure-cdn-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/microsoft-azure-cdn-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/microsoft-azure-cdn-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/microsoft-azure-cdn-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/microsoft-azure-cdn-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/microsoft-azure-cdn-finops.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/microsoft-azure-cdn-examples.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/microsoft-azure-cdn-management-overlay.yaml
- type: Support
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/
x-parent: microsoft-azure
x-relationship: product
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-17'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 150
  pass: local-v3

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