VSTS SSH on Azure's Global Network

This post explains the motivation and technical details behind moving Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) SSH to Azure's global network. It describes the current model where SSH requests are routed directly to the datacenter, leading to potential latency issues. The new model utilizes Microsoft's global network with edge nodes and Azure Traffic Manager to route requests more efficiently, requiring a new domain and SSH URLs. Performance improvements are expected, with anecdotal evidence of a 5x increase in transfer speed for HTTPS traffic. Users are instructed to update their SSH remotes by December 1, 2017.