Reduce data transfer (egress costs) between Azure and Cloudflare

​​ Overview

Cloudflare launched Bandwidth Alliance in 2018 – a group of forward-looking cloud and storage providers who have agreed to waive or steeply discount egress costs for mutual customers. 

Cloudflare customers using Azure can lower their egress bills between Cloudflare and Azure via Microsoft Routing Preference Open external link .

​​ How to

To lower your data transfer costs from Azure and Cloudflare: 

1. In the Azure portal, go to your storage account. 
2. Navigate to Network Routing > Firewalls and virtual networks.
3. For Routing preference, choose Internet routing.
4. Publish route-specific endpoint to Internet routing.
5. Navigate to Properties.
6. Locate the endpoint values for Internet Routing.
7. Enter these endpoint values in your Cloudflare Dashboard.

For additional details, refer to Configure network routing preference for Azure Storage Open external link and Microsoft Routing Preference Open external link .

​​ Related resources

• Microsoft Azure data transfer announcement Open external link (blog)
• Bandwidth Alliance Open external link