Traffic steering
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Traffic steering policies decide how a load balancer routes traffic to attached and healthy pools.
- Standard: Standard steering policies include Off - Failover and Random.
- Geo: Geo Steering directs traffic to pools tied to specific countries, regions, or — for Enterprise customers only — data centers.
- Dynamic: Dynamic Steering uses health check data to identify the fastest pool for a given Cloudflare Region or data center.
- Proximity: Proximity Steering routes visitors or internal services to the closest physical data center.
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