Traffic Manager
Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability.
Overview
DNS-based load balancing
Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS layer to quickly and efficiently direct incoming DNS requests based on the routing method of your choice. An example would be sending requests to the closest endpoints, improving the responsiveness of your applications.
- Azure Traffic Manager offers six types of DNS-based traffic routing: Priority, performance, geographic, weighted round-robin, subnet, and multi-value. Choose the one that's right for you or combine, using nested profiles.
- Traffic Manager can improve the availability of important applications by monitoring your Azure services, or external websites and services, automatically directing users to the next best location when there's a failure.
- Traffic Manager makes your applications more responsive and improves content delivery times by directing your customers to Azure end points or an external location with the lowest network latency.
- Traffic Manager can direct your customer traffic and distribute it across multiple locations, such as multiple cloud services or multiple Azure web apps. Traffic Manager can also help you with your geofencing needs, using the geographic routing method.
- Traffic Manager is a popular option for on-premises scenarios, including burst-to-cloud, migrate-to-cloud, and failover-to-cloud. Use it to upgrade or perform maintenance on your on-site datacenter without inconveniencing customers.
- Traffic Manager provides you with Geographic routing capabilities to ensure content localization and adherence to data sovereignty regulations. Applying geofencing allows users connecting from specific geographic regions to be routed to specific endpoints.
- Use the Traffic View capability in Traffic Manager to see where your users are connecting from and the quality of their digital experience.
Features
Reliable hybrid connectivity
High availability with automatic failover
Obtain high availability with multiple automatic failover options
Performance routing
Increase app responsiveness by leveraging performance routing
Hybrid cloud connectivity
Seamlessly combine on-premises systems and cloud systems
Actionable traffic insights
Get actionable insights based on user traffic volumes and patterns
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Customers
Customers running Traffic Manager on Azure today
Resources
Documentation and resources
Next steps
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