You need both GitHub and Azure accounts to get started. Once these are set up, create a repository for your site. GitHub provides useful templates for common static Web application frameworks ...

Although the Azure Web Application Firewall is a Microsoft solution, certainly there's no shortage of WAFs available from the likes of Akamai Technologies Inc., Barracuda Networks Inc., Citrix ...

You push your content to GitHub, and it'll handle SSL, wiring up web APIs (az functions!), serve up static content, and even handle auth (AAD, FB, G, TWIT, etc.) for you. Crazy!