What is the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)? | Intellipaat

Effective delivery of web content to users is made possible by a distributed network of servers called a content delivery network (CDN). CDNs cache content on edge servers at points of presence (POP) close to end users in order to decrease latency.

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Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers developers a global solution for quickly delivering excellent content to customers by caching their content at carefully selected physical nodes throughout the world. Azure CDN can speed up dynamic content that cannot be cached by combining numerous network enhancements with CDN POPs. For instance, route optimization to prevent Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

There are various benefits of using Azure CDN to provide web site assets, including:

  • improved performance and user experience for users, especially when using applications where
  • loading content frequently involves round-trips.
  • Large scalability to good handle peak demands that occur suddenly, like at the start of an engagement for a product introduction
  • Because user inquiries are distributed and content is served directly from edge servers, less traffic is directed to the source server.