CloudDays™ – Introduction to Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) is designed to send audio, video, applications, images, and other files faster and more reliably to customers using servers that are closest to each user. If you want to put binary files and blobs closer to your user, then CDN can be the right solution.
The CDN caches publicly available objects at strategically placed locations to provide maximum bandwidth for delivering content to users.
Essentially, when a user wants some content, the first user gets the data from the source server. When you use a CDN, that data is then cached at a site near the user. So subsequent users can get the data from the cache instead of going all the way back to the source server. For example, if a picture stored in a blob is in a European data center in Azure, a user in Portland Oregon would be able to access the file from a server set up in Seattle, making your image load much faster.
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