Content adaptive data center routing and forwarding in cloud computing environments

A method comprising:

• determining, based at least in part on a latency test, a plurality of data centers having an associated latency less than a threshold latency;
• transmitting, to a data center of the plurality of data centers, a request to execute one or more network performance tests customized to an application;
• exchanging, with the data center, network traffic and associated performance metrics corresponding to the one or more network performance tests;
• generating an application profile corresponding to the application based at least in part on the associated performance metrics;
• and
• prior to executing an application session of the application, transmitting, to one or more of the plurality of data centers, data representative of a request for a host of the application session, the request including information corresponding to the application profile.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed using the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to execute operations comprising:
• receiving, using a scheduler of a first data center and from a user device, first data representative of a request for a host of an application session, the first request including information corresponding to one or more second data centers;
• determining, based at least in part on the first request, application performance requirements for an application associated with the application session;
• determining that current compute resources of the first data center cannot satisfy the application performance requirements;
• based at least in part on the information, sending, using the scheduler and to a second data center of the one or more second data centers, second data representative of a second request to host the application session, the second request including the application performance requirements;
• receiving, using the scheduler and from the second data center, third data representative of an acceptance to host the application session;
• and
• sending, using the scheduler and to the user device, fourth data indicative of the acceptance such that the user device routes network traffic corresponding to the application session to the second data center.