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## Routing via Microsoft global network
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When you route your traffic via *Microsoft global network*, traffic is delivered over one of the largest networks on the globe spanning over 130,000 miles of fiber with over 165 edge POPs. The network is well provisioned with multiple redundant fiber paths to ensure exceptionally high reliability and availability. The traffic engineering is managed by a software defined WAN control that ensures low latency path selection for your traffic and offers the premium network performance.
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When you route your traffic via the *Microsoft global network*, traffic is delivered over one of the largest networks on the globe spanning over 130,000 miles of fiber with over 165 edge POPs. The network is well provisioned with multiple redundant fiber paths to ensure exceptionally high reliability and availability. The traffic engineering is managed by a software defined WAN control that ensures low latency path selection for your traffic and offers the premium network performance.
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**Ingress traffic:** The global BGP Anycast announcement ensures ingress traffic enters Microsoft network closest to the user. For example, if a user from Singapore accesses Azure resources hosted in Chicago, USA then traffic is entered into Microsoft global network in Singapore Edge Point Of Presence (PoP) and travels on Microsoft network to the service hosted in Chicago.
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**Egress traffic:** The egress traffic follows the same principle. Traffic travels majority of its journey on Microsoft global network and exists closest to the user. For example, if traffic from Azure Chicago is destined to a user from Singapore, then traffic travels on Microsoft network from Chicago to SIngapore, and exits the network in Singapore Edge Point Of Presence (PoP).
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**Egress traffic:** The egress traffic follows the same principle. Traffic travels majority of its journey on Microsoft global network and exists closest to the user. For example, if traffic from Azure Chicago is destined to a user from Singapore, then traffic travels on Microsoft network from Chicago to Singapore, and exits the network in Singapore Edge Point Of Presence (PoP).
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Both ingress and egress traffic stays bulk of the travel on Microsoft global network. This is also called cold potato routing.
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Both ingress and egress traffic stays bulk of the travel on the Microsoft global network. This is also known as *cold potato routing*.
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## Routing over public Internet (ISP network)
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The new routing choice **Internet routing** minimizes travel on Microsoft global network, and extensively uses transit ISP network. This costoptimized routing option offers network performance comparable to other cloud providers.
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The new routing choice *Internet routing* minimizes travel on the Microsoft global network, and extensively uses the transit ISP network. This cost-optimized routing option offers network performance that is comparable to other cloud providers.
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**Ingress traffic:** The ingress path uses hot potato routing that means that traffic enters Microsoft network closest to the hosted service region. For example, if a user from Singapore accesses Azure resources hosted in Chicago then traffic travels over public internet and enters Microsoft global network in Chicago.
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**Egress traffic:** The egress traffic follows the same principle. Traffic exits Microsoft network in the same region that the service is hosted. For example, if traffic from your service in Azure Chicago is destined to a user from Singapore, then traffic exits Microsoft network in Chicago and travels over public internet to the user in Singapore.
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**Ingress traffic:** The ingress path uses *hot potato routing* which means that traffic enters the Microsoft network that is closest to the hosted service region. For example, if a user from Singapore accesses Azure resources hosted in Chicago then traffic travels over the public internet and enters the Microsoft global network in Chicago.
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**Egress traffic:** The egress traffic follows the same principle. Traffic exits Microsoft network in the same region that the service is hosted. For example, if traffic from your service in Azure Chicago is destined to a user from Singapore, then traffic exits the Microsoft network in Chicago and travels over the public internet to the user in Singapore.
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## Supported services
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* Azure DataLake
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## Pricing
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The price difference between both options is reflected in the internet egress data transfer pricing. Routing via **Microsoft global network** data transfer price is same as current internet egress price. Visit [Azure bandwidth pricing page](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/bandwidth/) for the latest pricing information. Routing via **Public Internet** is priced lower as shown in the table below:
[Contact us](https://azure.microsoft.com/overview/sales-number/) for monthly volume over 500 TB.
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* Zone 1—Australia Central, Australia Central 2, Canada Central, Canada East, North Europe, West Europe, France Central, France South, Germany North (Public), Germany West Central (Public), Norway East, Norway West, Switzerland North, Switzerland West, UK South, UK West, Central US, East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West US, West US 2, and West Central US.
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* Zone 2—East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia East, Australia Southeast, Central India, South India, West India, Japan East, Japan West, Korea Central, and Korea South.
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* Zone 3—Brazil South, South Africa North, South Africa West, UAE Central, and UAE North.
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## Availability
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Routing Preference support is available in the following regions for services such as virtual machine and internet-facing load balancer that use a public IP for internet egress - North Europe, West Europe, France Central, UK South, Central US, East US, East US 2, North Central US, South Central US, West US, West US 2, West Central US, Southeast Asia, and Australia East.
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Routing Preference support for storage account is available in the following Azure regions - France Central, North Central US, and West Central US.
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## Limitations
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* Routing preference is only compatible with standard SKU of public IP address. Basic SKU of public IP address is not supported.
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