title: Verifying CDN Caching from a POP
body: <p>Our front-end team recently decided that it would be a good idea to serve our front-end Angular application, through a CDN. Yesterday, I was able to build my application and have its static assets served through a CDN, which means that I had a proof of concept to show to my colleagues. </p>
  
  <p>However, our origin server is located in the <strong>East US</strong> region and so I would not suspect that performance for me (my computer is also located in the same region) to improve.</p>
  
  <p>I decided to spin up a VM, using Azure, and deploy it in the <strong>West US</strong> region and try and hit my public front-end (which has the CDN configured) inside of that VM.</p>
  
  <p>If I wanted to verify that I am getting assets from a POP closer to the West US region and not still through the East US region, how could I do this? I tried using <code>tracert</code> from within the VM but because Azure blocks ICMP, I am unable to do so.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any other ways of verifying that my CDN is working properly?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>