Azure Storage / File Sync Service

Question

Swy I have a company located in New York as headquarter . Now I have hundred different file servers in my New York headquarter office which I would like all my users to get access to, with low latency and real-time access to all those data, all file shares across my branch offices which is spread across the globe, such as in middle East , London, Russia, Australia or somewhere in India. my understanding is, that Azure file sync service can be used to migrate the data from my on-prem file servers into the cloud but what is the solution I should go for, to enable low latency, highly secure and real-time synced data access to those on-prem file share data across all my branch offices? Is that Azure CDN, which can be used in such context?

Answer 1

@Arunava Dey Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

As your are looking for Low latency, real-time access & reliable setup, I would suggest you to reach out for Microsoft Consulting Services, so an Architect can help you design environment based on your requirement.With above suggestion, considering the details you have shared, if you are trying to sync data from On-Premise to Azure and have realtime access to data, Azure File Sync is best option. But, the cloud end point of AFS can be only a File share in Azure. As CDN can't be enabled on File Storage, you may not be able to use CDN(Not supported unless there is some sync mechanism between File Server and the actual supported source like Storage Account)

However, if you are using AFS and using file share as cloud endpoint, you can mount the files in different services & build another solution to get the files from that specific file share

Additional information : Azure on the Cheap - Azure Storage Static Website and Azure Front Door

Azure Frontdoor vs CDN.(Compared to CDN its bit expensive) It allows a maximum connection timeout of 240 seconds, but if you're write operations are chunked, it shouldn't be a problem.(For blob)

Hope this helps!
Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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