Update Azure's routing preference to get lower data transfer costs
Overview
Cloudflare launched Bandwidth Alliance in 2018 – a group of forward-looking cloud and storage providers who have agreed to waive or steeply discount egress costs for mutual customers.
Cloudflare customers using Azure can lower their egress bills between Cloudflare and Azure via Microsoft Routing Preference.
How to
To lower your data transfer costs from Azure and Cloudflare:
- In the Azure portal, go to your storage account.
- Navigate to Network Routing > Firewalls and virtual networks.
- For Routing preference, choose Internet routing.
- Publish route-specific endpoint to Internet routing.
- Navigate to Properties.
- Locate the endpoint values for Internet Routing.
- Enter these endpoint values in your Cloudflare Dashboard.
For additional details, refer to Configure network routing preference for Azure Storage and Microsoft Routing Preference.