Last updated on March 8, 2023
Azure Traffic Manager Cheat Sheet
- 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.
Azure Traffic Manager 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.
Azure Traffic Manager Cheat Sheet References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-overview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/
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Jon Bonso is the co-founder of Tutorials Dojo, an EdTech startup and an AWS Digital Training Partner that provides high-quality educational materials in the cloud computing space. He graduated from Mapúa Institute of Technology in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Information Technology. Jon holds 10 AWS Certifications and is also an active AWS Community Builder since 2020.
