Route Traffic based on Geo Location

Question

I have Azure frontdoor Configured with rpxOriginGroup which has 2 origin one is in EAST US and second is in CentralUS.

I want Geo Location based routing, if anybody try to access example.com which is pointed to azure frontdoor from East US it should be route to East US origin and if somebody tries to access from Central US request should be route to Central US origin.

Note both origins are in same originGroup.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Karamjit Singh,

Azure front door supports only for Geo Location in the rule engine configuration. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the regions.to specifically route the traffic
Refer this doc:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/web-application-firewall/afds/waf-front-door-geo-filtering

• By default, Azure Front Door routes traffic to the origin that is closest to your end users. The latency routing method is the default behavior for end users.
• This method directs user requests to the origin with the lowest network latency, rather than the closest geographic location, ensuring optimal performance.

For example, East US users will be routed to the East US web application. Central US users will be routed to the Central US web application.
Refer this doc:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/routing-methods#lowest-latencies-based-traffic-routing

May I ask if the above behavior is not working on your setup? If so, could you please provide some insights or issues you are experiencing?

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