Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager provides a feature to distribute user traffic to different endpoints. These endpoints can be Azure App Service (Azure Web Apps), cloud services, Azure Virtual Machines, and external endpoints. It is a DNS-based traffic routing. Azure Traffic Manager supports three traffic routing methods to decide how traffic can be routed to different endpoints. In simple terms, it is a way to decide which endpoint should serve the DNS request.
There are two different deployment models in Microsoft Azure—the classic deployment and Resource Manager deployment models. Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager uses different terminology for traffic routing methods (known as the load-balancing method in the classic deployment ...
