Origin shielding
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Updated at July 20, 2026
Origin shielding is a Cloud CDN feature that helps reduce the load on content origins from CDN servers.
If shielding is enabled for a resource, CDN servers request files from an intermediate shielding server rather than from an origin directly. This server deduplicates the requests received: a file requested more than once is downloaded from an origin once and cached.
The shielding servers are located in different geographical locations:
| Provider | Location ID | Location name |
|---|---|---|
| Yandex Cloud CDN | 1 | Russia / Moscow / msk |
You can select a suitable location when enabling or configuring shielding.
Origin shielding is a paid feature. See Yandex Cloud CDN pricing policy for billing details.