Windows Azure Content Delivery Network

Delivering content worldwide can be a challenge. As more and more people gain access to the Internet, more and more people (hopefully) will be visiting our site. The ability to deliver content to our visitors is limited by the resources we've used for our application. One way of handling bottlenecks is to move commonly used files (such as CSS or JavaScript libraries) or large media files (such as photos, music, and videos) to another network with much greater bandwidth, and with multiple locations around the world. These networks are known as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and when properly utilized to deliver content from a node geographically closer to the requester, they can greatly speed up the delivery of our content.

The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network is a service that locates our publicly available blobs in data centers around the world, and automatically routes our users' requests to the geographically closest data center. The CDN...