You can manage your traffic by defining Traffic Policies. Traffic policies allow you to control how traffic is distributed between different CDN providers for each geolocation.
You can define policies based on three main characteristics:
- Performance – Select the best-performing CDN provider in each geolocation.
- Availability – Enable automatic failover between CDNs if an issue occurs with one of the providers.
- Cost – Optimize costs by defining priorities between CDNs and configuring traffic commitments.
Traffic policies are geo-based. The default traffic policy is automatically created when you create your service, and it applies to the entire world. This policy cannot be deleted.
You can configure the default policy or add additional policies for specific geolocations. A geolocation can be a country, a state, or an entire continent.
When multiple policies apply to the same location, the more specific policy takes precedence. For example, suppose you create a policy for Europe and configure it to use CDN-A, and then create another policy specifically for France using CDN-B. In this case, the policy for France will take precedence over the policy for Europe.
Prerequisites #
Before starting to work with Traffic Policies, make sure you have the following:
- Flumotion Smart Multi CDN Service – You can follow these steps to create a service.
- CDN Account – You will need at least one CDN account to use with your service.