The correct option to configure for ensuring inbound user traffic uses the Microsoft point-of-presence (POP) closest to the user's location is option C, Routing preference.
Routing preference in Azure Traffic Manager allows you to specify how to route traffic to your Azure service endpoints based on various criteria, such as the geographic location of the client or the endpoint, the performance of the endpoint, or the priority of the endpoint.
By configuring routing preference, you can direct incoming user traffic to the Microsoft point-of-presence (POP) closest to the user's location, ensuring the best possible user experience. This can be achieved by selecting the "Performance" routing method in Azure Traffic Manager, which uses DNS-based traffic routing to direct users to the endpoint that offers the best performance from the user's location.
Network routing preference for Azure Storage
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/network-routing-preference#microsoft-global-network-versus-internet-routing
You can choose between the Microsoft global network and internet routing as the default routing preference for the public endpoint of your storage account.
By default, clients outside of the Azure environment access your storage account over the Microsoft global network. The Microsoft global network is optimized for low-latency path selection to deliver premium network performance with high reliability. Both inbound and outbound traffic are routed through the point of presence (POP) that is closest to the client.
C is the answer.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/network-routing-preference#microsoft-global-network-versus-internet-routing
By default, clients outside of the Azure environment access your storage account over the Microsoft global network. The Microsoft global network is optimized for low-latency path selection to deliver premium network performance with high reliability. Both inbound and outbound traffic are routed through the point of presence (POP) that is closest to the client. This default routing configuration ensures that traffic to and from your storage account traverses over the Microsoft global network for the bulk of its path, maximizing network performance.
D. load balancing.
To ensure that inbound user traffic uses the Microsoft point-of-presence (POP) closest to the user's location, you should configure load balancing. Azure Traffic Manager provides global load balancing for the endpoint for the storage account, routing traffic to the closest Microsoft POP based on the lowest latency.
you're right in that an LB will use the closest POP. But: you can't put a storage account behind a LB (okay, you can, if you use the SA as a static website, but that's pretty out of scope here, I think - and you'd better use CDN for that anyways)
A. private endpoints
To ensure that inbound user traffic uses the Microsoft point-of-presence (POP) closest to the user's location, you should configure Azure Traffic Manager for your storage account
Routing preference is not a valid option for ensuring that inbound user traffic uses the Microsoft point-of-presence (POP) closest to the user's location.
I don't agree. Private endpoints are used to limit exposure to to public internet. If you check
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-private-endpoints
you will see that POP is not mentioned anywhere in the article. On the other hand, network routing preference is related directly to POP used.
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