Azure networking delivery

- [Instructor] The third of the four broad categories of networking services is called Delivery. Azure's network services also offer ways to improve the quality and speed of the data delivered to your end users that you should be aware of. The one service that many people would be familiar with is called a Content Delivery Network or CDN. Azure maintains a large number of servers around the world for storing static files so that your users see better performance from your application and website. So if your users are in South Africa, you can place the images, videos, CSS files, and JavaScript files for your website on servers in South Africa while your application is running on servers in Europe. In this way, you can have your application hosted in only a few places with all of the expense of that that entails while the large static files can be in many more places. Azure Traffic Manager is a load bouncer that operates at a global level. You can have multiple versions of your applications running in any parts of the world and Traffic Manager can find the best place to send users based on their own location. So users in Europe are sent to a European region, users in the United States are sent to a US region, and so on. This also supports a global failover should one region suddenly become unavailable due to a localized storm or other issue.