Introduction

In this article, we will go step by step to configure Azure CDN using Azure Storage Account so without delay user will get contents like images, videos, pdf, etc.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Azure Subscription (MSDN subscribers or sign up for one month free trial)

You will Learn

• How to Create Azure Storage Account?
• How to Create Azure CDN?
• How to Configure Azure CDN Endpoints?

About Azure CDN

The Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content that is hosted in Azure or any other location. Using the CDN, you can cache publicly available objects loaded from Azure blob storage, a web application, virtual machine, application folder, or other HTTP/HTTPS location. The CDN cache can be held at strategic locations to provide maximum bandwidth for delivering content to users. The CDN is typically used for delivering static content such as images, style sheets, documents, files, client-side scripts, and HTML pages.

You can also use the CDN as a cache for serving dynamic content, such as a PDF report or graph based on specified inputs; if the same input values are provided by different users the result should be the same.

The major advantages of using the CDN are lower latency and faster delivery of content to users irrespective of their geographical location in relation to the datacenter where the application is hosted.

Step 1: Open Azure Portal.

Step 2: Click +New -> Storage -> Storage Account

Step 3: Enter Storage Account Name, Performance, Replication, Location, etc.

Step 4: Click “Blobs”

Step 5: Create New Container.

Container name: publicfiles & Access type: Blob

Step 4: Click “Blobs”

Step 6: Select Container name & click “Upload” option.

Step 7: Select an image file or any other file.

Step 8: Wait for few seconds to upload the content to the Container.

Select image file & copy the URL of the image.

Open image URL in a browser.

Create Azure CDN

Step 10: Enter CDN Name. Choose existing resource group (storage account resource group), pricing tier: P1 Premium Verizon, S1 Standard Verizon, S2 Standard Akamai

Note: Azure CDN from Akamai – Propagation will usually complete within one minute

Azure CDN from Verizon – Propagation will usually complete within 90 minutes or more.

Step 11: Create New Endpoint

Step 12: Enter endpoint name,

Origin type: Storage,

Origin hostname: choose existing storage account

Origin path: /publicfiles (container name)

Step 13: Wait for one minute to configure the CDN. When it’s done one endpoint will available.

Step 14: Now again open browser & enter CDN URL with image file name.

Ex. https://cdnprofile.azureedge.net/image1.jpg

Note: For testing purpose, a few websites are available

https://tools.keycdn.com/speed

https://www.webpagetest.org/