Traffic steering

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Traffic steering policies decide how a load balancer routes traffic to attached and healthy pools.

• Standard: Standard steering policies include Off - Failover and Random.
• Geo: Geo Steering directs traffic to pools tied to specific countries, regions, or — for Enterprise customers only — data centers.
• Dynamic: Dynamic Steering uses health monitor data to identify the fastest pool for a given Cloudflare Region or data center.
• Proximity: Proximity Steering routes visitors or internal services to the closest physical data center.
• Least Outstanding Request: Least Outstanding Request Steering allows you to route traffic to pools or origin servers that currently have the lowest amount of outstanding requests. The origin weights are scaled proportionally by the ratio of active connections.