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by manigandham 2756 days ago
It's a global loadbalancer that works across regions and directs traffic over their private network to the closest backend based on a number of factors, and provides a single IP endpoint to the rest of the internet.

Google has Global Load Balancing: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/

Azure has Front Door: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/frontdoor/

Various CDNs like Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly also have the same if you need to span multiple providers. Azure supports this also with custom endpoints.