What is the Azure CDN?
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers developers a global solution for rapidly delivering high-bandwidth content to users by caching their content at strategically placed physical nodes across the world.
Is Azure CDN PaaS or SAAS?
Azure CDN is a PaaS offering. You don’t have to worry about infrastructure (IaaS), but you do have to configure the service. You have to scale it, manage the locations it services, and even self host it.
Why is Azure CDN used?
Content Delivery Network helps reduce latency and improve performance for high-bandwidth content by distributing user requests and serving content directly from edge servers. This brings the content closer to users and sends less traffic to the origin point, delivering superior online experiences.
What are the types of CDN?
There are basically two types of CDNs, a public and a private CDN. A public CDN is managed by a CDN operator and is based on a pay-as-you-use model, typically charging a fee per GB.
What are the features of CDN?
The business of CDNs is managing traffic, so it makes sense some features focus on this area.
- Application load balancing.
- Origin shield.
- DNS services.
- Network security.
- Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection.
- Web application firewall (WAF).
- Rate limiting.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
What is CDN example?
For example, your CDN has stored, on its edge servers, a copy of the black Nike running shoe that we talked about earlier. Even if you change the image on your origin server, the file cached on the CDN won’t change automatically. For the same product image, the CDN cache has a different version than the origin server.
What is the most popular CDN?
Top 10 CDN Providers You Should Consider in 2021–2022
- Akamai. Overview: Akamai is a leading CDN company founded in 1998.
- Amazon CloudFront. Overview: Cloudfront is a CDN offering powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), first launched in 2008.
- Azure CDN.
- CacheFly.
- Cloudflare.
- CDN77.
- Fastly.
- Google Cloud CDN.
