IP Anycast: Routing to the Nearest Instance is part of the Pro tier — advanced networking topics including BGP routing, Zero Trust, DDoS attacks, QUIC, TLS certificate chains, and more.
This scenario covers
How anycast assigns the same IP address to multiple servers worldwide, using BGP to route each user to the geographically nearest instance — the technology behind DNS root servers and CDNs.
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