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General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
May 2023
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Target availability: Q2 2023
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
March 2023
General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains
Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.
May 2022
General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.
January 2022
Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.
April 2019
Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019
Target retirement date: May 01, 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
January 2019
Azure DNS: Getting ready for DNS Flag Day
Domains hosted on any Microsoft DNS service, including Azure DNS and Traffic Manager, will continue to work after DNS Flag Day. Customers don't need to take any action at this time.
June 2018
General availability: Metrics in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager provides metrics for monitoring the health status of endpoints in a profile and the amount of traffic that a profile receives. These metrics are now generally available.
September 2017
Azure Traffic Manager real user measurements
Real user measurements will enable customers to influence the routing decisions made by Azure Traffic Manager, when using the performance routing method, to provide even lower latency for their users than is currently possible.
Azure Traffic Manager traffic view
With traffic view, Azure Traffic Manager customers will now be able to understand where their user bases are located (up to a local DNS resolver level granularity), the volume of traffic originating from these regions, and the representative latency experienced.
June 2017
Azure Traffic Manager—Fast Failover and TCP Probing
Two new features in Azure Traffic Manager are now generally available—Fast Failover and TCP Probing.
General availability: Fast Failover and TCP Probing in Azure Traffic Manager
In Azure Traffic Manager, two new features related to endpoint health are now generally available: Fast Failover and TCP Probing.
March 2017
Traffic Manager available only in the Azure portal from April 3
Starting April 3, 2017, the Azure Traffic Manager service will be available only in the Azure portal.
April 2015
Public preview: Network Resource Provider APIs released
Manage your Azure network resources by using new REST-based Resource Provider APIs.
October 2014
General Availability: Traffic Manager Nested Profiles
Traffic Manager Nested Profiles enable you to create more flexible and powerful load balancing and failover schemes to support the needs of larger, more complex deployments.
September 2014
Azure PowerShell 0.8.8
The new release adds support for Role-based access control, SQL Database auditing support in Azure Resource Manager mode and more
June 2014
Traffic Manager support for weighted traffic distribution
Azure Traffic Manager’s round robin load-balancing method now supports weights.
Azure PowerShell 0.8.3
This PowerShell release includes updates for Web Sites, Traffic Manager, and individual cmdlets.
May 2014
Azure PowerShell 0.8.1 and 0.8.2
New support for Managed Cache, Azure Automation, Traffic Manager and the Anti-Malware Cloud Service extension.
Traffic Manager support for external endpoints
Manage traffic for endpoints that live inside or outside of Azure.
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