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Every tutorial, how-to guide, multi-product guide, and architecture for the Azion Web Platform, in one place, grouped by the solution it serves. Account, Console, and tooling guides sit under Platform. Filter by content type or topic, or search by name. Videos come from the Azion channel on YouTube and open there.
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TutorialAbout Azion ConsoleFind where Azion Console keeps each product, the Create modal, help, and the account pages, from the homepage to the account menu.TutorialAccess Azion ConsoleCreate an Azion account, sign in to Azion Console, and use the account menu to open account pages, change the theme, or sign out.How-to guideAdd a backup origin to a connectorKeep a standby origin out of daily traffic, and let it receive requests only when every primary address of the connector fails.How-to guideAdd a custom domain to a workloadList a domain you own on a workload, point its DNS record at the workload domain, and close the workload domain, from Azion Console, the CLI, or the API.How-to guideAdd Bot Manager Lite to a FirewallDeploy the Bot Manager Lite Integration Kit template to add a function instance and a Rules Engine rule to a firewall you already have.How-to guideAdd the Edge Pulse tag to your pagesCopy the Edge Pulse JavaScript tag from Azion Console and add it to the pages you want to measure, so the browsers of real visitors send measurements.How-to guideAdd the Let's Encrypt TXT recordAdd the _acme-challenge TXT record to a zone in Edge DNS so Let's Encrypt can validate a certificate that Certbot or another ACME client requests.How-to guideAdd, edit, or delete a recordAdd, change, or delete a record in an Edge DNS zone from Azion Console, the Azion CLI, or the API, and see when Azion's nameservers answer it.How-to guideAllow only the addresses in a listCreate a network list of allowed addresses and a firewall rule that denies every client outside it, in Azion Console, the Azion CLI, or the API.How-to guideApply a rule set to every requestCreate the firewall rule whose Set WAF behavior hands every request to one rule set, from Azion Console, the Azion CLI, or the API.How-to guideApply a WAF rule set to a specific cookieRun two WAF rule sets on one firewall, and score requests carrying a chosen cookie against the rule set that holds an exception.How-to guideApply WAF and a rate limit to one pathCreate one firewall rule that scores the requests to a path with a WAF rule set and caps the rate of each client on it.How-to guideAssociate workloads with a streamChoose the workloads a Data Stream stream collects logs from, in Azion Console or with the Azion API, and confirm the stream sends them.How-to guideAuthenticate requests with FunctionsGuard an Object Storage bucket with a function that validates a JSON Web Token and serves the object only to an authorized request.Tutorial · VideoAutomatic Image Optimization for E-commerce - full setup in few minutesConfigure automatic image optimization at the infrastructure level, with no code on your server.Tutorial · VideoAzion Edge Storage via Command Line Interface CLICreate, read, update, and delete Object Storage buckets and objects with the Azion CLI.How-to guideBalance traffic across multiple originsSpread the requests of an application across several origin addresses with a Load Balancer connector and a Rules Engine rule that sets it.How-to guideBind a firewall to a workloadProtect the domains of a workload with an existing firewall: name it in the workload's deployment from Azion Console, the Azion CLI, or the API.How-to guideBind a rule set in azion.config.jsDeclare the WAF rule set and the firewall rule that applies it in azion.config.js, so the Azion CLI creates both from the repository.How-to guideBlock addresses until a dateDeny an address until a due date with a dated network list entry and a firewall rule, then end the block with a write of the list.How-to guideBlock bots and Tor exit nodes with a templateDeploy the Bot Manager Lite and TOR Block Starter Kit template to create a firewall that scores requests and denies Tor exit-node addresses.How-to guideBlock requests by IP, ASN, or countryCreate a network list of IP addresses, ASNs, or countries and deny it in a firewall rule, from Azion Console, the Azion CLI, or the API.How-to guideBlock Tor exit nodesDrop every request from a Tor exit node with one firewall rule on the Azion IP Tor Exit Nodes list, from Azion Console, Azion CLI, or the API.How-to guideBreak down requests by status codeSplit your applications' requests by status code, narrow them to one class, rank the hosts that return errors, and compare each code with the origin's answer.