Windows Azure CDN Content Delivery Network Pricing
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Windows Azure CDN Content Delivery Network
Offering one-click-integration with Windows Azure Storage, the Windows Azure content delivery network (CDN) enhances end user performance and reliability by placing copies of data closer to users. The Windows Azure CDN today delivers many Microsoft products – such as Windows Update, Zune videos, and Bing Maps - which customers know and use every day. By adding the CDN to Windows Azure capabilities, we’ve now made this large-scale network available to all our Windows Azure customers.
Benefits
The Windows Azure CDN caches your Windows Azure blobs at strategically placed locations to provide the best experience for delivering your content to users. Benefits of the CDN include:
- Better performance and user experience for end users who are far from a content source, and are using applications where many ‘internet trips’ are required to load content, and
- Large distributed scale to better handle instantaneous high load, say, at the start of an event such as a product launch.
CDN Nodes
With 22 physical nodes globally (United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America), the Windows Azure CDN offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content. The list of the physical nodes is as below:
- CDN Nodes
- Supported Content
The Windows Azure CDN can deliver content from public blob containers in Windows Azure Storage - content types can include web objects (e.g. JPG, CSS, and JavaScript), downloadable objects (media files, software, and documents), applications, real time media streams, and other components of Internet delivery (DNS, routes, and database queries). You can enable CDN delivery for any storage account via the Windows Azure Developer Portal.
Windows Azure CDN charges will not include fees associated with transferring this data from Windows Azure Storage to CDN. Any data transfers and storage transactions incurred to get data from Windows Azure Storage to the CDN will be charged separately at our normal Windows Azure Storage rates. CDN charges are incurred for data requests it receives and for the data it transfers out to satisfy these requests.
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