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WSO2 API Cloud supports API gateways in multiple regions such as US East, US West, Brazil (São Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Singapore, and Sydney. With the increasing number of API consumer bases, the demand to expose APIs on multiple gateway locations is a common customer requirement. WSO2 API Cloud addressed this requirement by allowing the configuration of multiple gateway URLs. As a next step, we are excited to announce geolocation-based API routing for customers using multiple gateways in WSO2 API Cloud.
In geolocation-based API request routing, the geolocation from which the requests originate is mapped to an API gateway residing in one of the configured regions, preferably to the region closest to where the API request originated from. Let's take a look at a set of use cases where it is important to apply geolocation-based API request routing.
Key points:
Now let’s see how to enable geolocation-based routing: