I have been looking at the Windows Azure platform for some time and cannot find the answer to one very important question.
If I deploy my application in the cloud, how will it be reached from different places around the world?
For example, if I have a web application with a database and you want it to be available to users in the UK, USA, China, etc. Can I be sure that any user in the world will receive almost the same query processing time?
I think of it like that. 1. The user sends a request (moves to my website in a browser) 2. This request falls into the cloud in the nearest place (closest to the MS user data center?) 3. It is processed by an instance of my web application (in the nearest place with the request to my centralized database, which may be far away, but the SQL query goes through the internal MS network, which I suppose should be very fast). 4. A response has been sent to the user.
Please let me know if I am wrong.
Thank.
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