Delivery Steering

What it is for

A second CDN does not make you resilient on its own. Most multi-CDN setups split traffic by a fixed percentage chosen months ago, so a provider having a bad hour in one region keeps its share of your audience until someone notices and edits a config. Steering on live measurements fixes that. Done naively, though, it sends everything to the fastest provider and leaves you short of the commit levels you are contractually obliged to fill with the others.

Each session's CDN is chosen from live measurements, and traffic fails over automatically when a provider degrades mid-event. The commit levels in your contracts constrain every decision, so traffic moves for performance while staying within the deals you have signed.

What it does

• Per-session CDN selection on live measurement
• Automatic failover on error and latency thresholds
• Commit-level and cost-aware traffic shaping
• Synthetic and real-user measurement blended
• Per-provider availability and penalty reporting
• Origin shield and cache-hit ratio tuning

Coverage

Any HTTP CDN

Refresh

Continuous

Delivery

Steering service, API

What you get

• Steering service, hosted or in your infrastructure
• Measurement pipeline with synthetic and real-user inputs
• Commit-level and cost model per provider
• Availability reporting you can use in contract discussions
• Origin shield and cache-hit configuration review
• Failover runbook and escalation path

Who it is for

• Platforms with two or more CDNs on static weighting
• Teams struggling to hit their commit levels, or to measure them
• Anyone who has lost an event to a degrading provider with no automatic shift