Anycast
One service address, several cities. The nearest healthy node answers; the rest stay warm as backup.
Four points of presence. Packets stay in-region instead of hairpinning through Virginia. Same ASN name in every city.
One service address, several cities. The nearest healthy node answers; the rest stay warm as backup.
Answers originate in-region so the first lookup does not wait on a distant resolver chain.
Health probes and signed cookies run at the door. No detour to a core DC for the small stuff.
IX fabrics in the region. Transit is the fallback, not the default path.