Azure Web App Video Streaming Solution for Improved User Experience

Improve Video Streaming for European and Asian Users

Question

You have an Azure web app named App1 that streams video content to users. App1 is located in the East US Azure region.

Users in North America stream the video content without any interruption.

Users in Asia and Europe report that the video buffer often and do not play back smoothly.

You need to recommend a solution to improve video streaming to the European and Asian users.

What should you recommend?

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A. B. C. D.

C

The issue at hand is that users in Asia and Europe are experiencing buffering and playback issues when streaming video content from the Azure web app located in the East US region. This is likely due to the physical distance between the users and the server, which can cause latency and network congestion.

To improve video streaming for these users, we need to reduce the distance between them and the server, as well as reduce network congestion. One solution to achieve this is to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

A CDN is a network of servers distributed globally that work together to deliver content to users from the server closest to them. By using a CDN, we can distribute the video content from the Azure web app to edge servers located in different regions, such as Europe and Asia. This will reduce the distance between the users and the server, resulting in lower latency and faster content delivery.

Therefore, the recommended solution is to configure an Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) endpoint (option C). This will improve video streaming performance for users in Europe and Asia by caching the video content in edge servers located in their region, reducing the distance between the users and the server, and improving network congestion.

Scaling out or scaling up the App Service plan (options A and B) may improve performance, but it will not address the root cause of the issue, which is the distance between the users and the server. Additionally, configuring Azure File Sync (option D) is not relevant to this scenario, as it is used for synchronizing files between servers and Azure Files.