Generally Available: Local redirect policy in Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS

Local redirect policy with Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS is now generally available. 

Customers running high-scale AKS workloads often experience latency and performance bottlenecks due to cross-node traffic routing. The new local redirect policy addresses this by enabling node-local service routing, ensuring traffic is redirected to pods on the same node whenever possible. This results in lower latency, improved throughput, and enhanced reliability, especially critical for AI training and microservice-based applications.  

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