Category: Data, Microsoft, Architecture

Last week at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced that Azure Peering Service is now generally available. We also introduced “routing preference,” a new option for our customers to further architect and optimize their traffic to and from Azure over the “public Internet.”

The experience when accessing your applications and data depends on the performance of your network connection and the global network powering your applications and services in the cloud. For the best experience, data should travel the shortest path and enter and exit the Microsoft network as close as possible to you or your users.

Stretching across all continents through hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber and hundreds of network points of presence (PoP), it powers all the Microsoft cloud services such as Azure, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn, and their millions of users.

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