Audience
Businesses looking to route incoming traffic for high performance and availability
About Azure Traffic Manager
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.
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Pricing
Free Trial:
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Integrations
Company Information
Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Support
Phone Support
Online
Azure Traffic Manager Frequently Asked Questions
Azure Traffic Manager Product Features
Load Balancing
Authentication
Supported
Content Caching
Supported
Content Routing
Supported
Data Compression
Supported
Predefined Protocols
Supported
Reverse Proxy
Supported
Schedulers
Supported
Automatic Configuration
Not Supported
Health Monitoring
Not Supported
Redundancy Checking
Not Supported
SSL Offload
Not Supported
