Explore Azure Traffic Manager - Training

Summary

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based load balancer that directs client requests to the best service endpoint using various routing methods. It improves application availability and responsiveness by monitoring endpoint health and providing automatic failover. Users can create and configure Traffic Manager profiles to manage traffic across different application deployments effectively.

Highlights

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer. This service allows you to distribute traffic to your public facing applications across the global Azure regions. Traffic Manager also provides your public endpoints with high availability and quick responsiveness.
Traffic Manager uses DNS to direct the client requests to the appropriate service endpoint based on a traffic-routing method. Traffic manager also provides health monitoring for every endpoint. The endpoint can be any Internet-facing service hosted inside or outside of Azure. Traffic Manager provides a range of traffic-routing methods and endpoint monitoring options to suit different application needs and automatic failover models. Traffic Manager is resilient to failure, including the failure of an entire Azure region. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01j488awmry2kaa7f2a8tq30eh))