Patent attributes
Some embodiments provide a method of implementing context-aware routing for a software-defined wide-area network, at an SD-WAN edge forwarding element (FE) located at a branch network connected to the SD-WAN. The method receives, from an SD-WAN controller, geolocation route weights for each of multiple cloud datacenters across which a set of application resources is distributed. The application resources are all reachable at a same virtual network address. For each of the cloud datacenters, the method installs a route for the virtual network address between the branch network and the cloud datacenter. The routes have different total costs based at least in part on the geolocation metrics received from the SD-WAN controller. The SD-WAN edge FE selects between the routes to establish connections to the set of application resources.
