Azure Content Delivery Network
Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach
Increase speed and scalability for an optimal user experience
Azure Content Delivery Network offers a global solution for rapidly delivering content. Save bandwidth and improve responsiveness when encoding or distributing gaming software, firmware updates, and IoT endpoints. Reduce load times for websites, mobile apps, and streaming media to increase user satisfaction globally.
Stream media and download large files quickly with optimised delivery
Provide a scalable solution to handle world-wide traffic spikes and instantaneous high loads
Integrate seamlessly with your Azure services to activate within minutes
Protect content with customised domain HTTPS, DDoS, and WAF protection
Improved performance and user experience
Users expect a fast, reliable, and personalised web experience wherever they are. 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.
Global coverage and massive scalability
Scale on the fly with no downtime using a platform that responds to traffic fluctuations. A distributed, global presence enables Content Delivery Network to handle sudden traffic spikes and heavy loads—for example, during major product launches or global sporting events—without new infrastructure costs or capacity concerns. Global, distributed points of presence (PoPs) ensure fast delivery of content and protects the origin from excessive load.
Protection at the edge
Optimise security through features like customised domain HTTPS and DDoS mitigation. Enable Content Delivery Network to put edge servers on the front line serving and protect the origin server from malicious attacks. Set advanced rules to block requests or validate users and use geo-filtering to ensure the content is delivered only to specific regions.
Automate processes and workflows with DevOps
Azure APIs and developer tools give you the performance, reliability, and security needed to build and automate global applications fast. A unified API allows you to deploy Content Delivery Network endpoints from each provider and still manage them the same way. Azure APIs also provide the flexibility to optimise features for availability and performance.
Why trust Azure Content Delivery Network?
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Azure Content Delivery Network pricing
Azure Content Delivery Network includes straightforward billing, support, and management. A simplified pricing model requires no commitment and is quick to set up.
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Optimise delivery across scenarios
Providing uninterrupted, high-definition streaming
Firstlight Media wanted to improve its data centre’s scalability, decrease customers’ upfront investments, and maintain 99.99 percent availability, so it began a digital transformation and migrated its live and VOD streaming on-premises infrastructures to Azure.
Delivering a high-quality streaming experience
Digital content distribution platform Visaic needed a solution that could handle unpredictable peaks in viewership. With Azure Content Delivery Network, they now confidently deliver a high-quality video streaming experience without lag time or dropped streams.
Building a working website prototype within minutes
Chipotle's team used Azure Content Delivery Network to build a single-page app that could integrate with the company's existing content management system and back-end services.
Prioritising customer experience with reliable delivery
MENAT's top bank is reimagining the customer experience with its mobile banking app powered by Azure. They used Content Delivery Network to enable safe and reliable delivery and acceleration of app contents to end users, enhancing performance and scale.
Instantly distribute content
GeekWire accelerated load times and cut latency to improve user experience for their dynamic web applications and website with Azure Content Delivery Network.
Stream any media—anywhere, at any scale
NBC Olympics' coverage of the Rio Games shattered sports streaming records, with over 3 billion minutes streamed. Their partnership with Azure was critical in extending their reach to more people and devices.
Content Delivery Network documentation and resources
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Frequently asked questions about Azure Content Delivery Network
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Azure Front Door is an application delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities for your applications. It delivers content while protecting apps, APIs, and websites from cyberthreats, and works seamlessly with Azure services and modern content delivery network (CDN) technology.
Azure Content Delivery Network is a globally distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to consumers. It stores cached content on the edge servers' PoP locations that are close to users, thereby minimising network latency.