Azure Traffic Manager

 

• A DNS-based traffic load balancer.
• Improves the responsiveness of your applications by sending the request to the closest endpoint.
• It offers a range of traffic-routing methods and endpoint monitoring options.

Features

• It is resilient to failure.
• You can obtain actionable insights about your users using a traffic view.
• Improve the availability of your applications by using traffic manager health checks.
• Offers automatic failover when an endpoint goes down.
• Traffic Manager endpoints: Azure, External, and Nested
• Combine multiple traffic-routing methods using nested traffic manager profiles.

Routing Methods

• Priority – allows you to set a primary endpoint for all traffic.
• Weighted – distribute traffic according to weights.
• Performance – routes users to the closest endpoint.
• Geographic – direct users to a specific endpoint.
• Multivalue – endpoints for IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
• Subnet – map a group of end-user IP address range to a specific endpoint.

Pricing

• You are charged based on the number of DNS queries received.
• You are also charged for each monitored endpoint.
• You can reduce your DNS query charges by configuring a larger TTL.
• You are charged for the number of data points used in the traffic view.