December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Another way of designing for availability and scalability is copying your web app over to multiple regions or data centers. Azure uses Azure Traffic Manager to spread the workload. Your web app can be reached by using a single URL, where Azure Traffic Manager will handle the load and locate the closest geographical region or the most suitable region for you at the DNS level. The following screenshot shows the Azure Traffic Manager profile page:

When creating an Azure Traffic Manager profile from the Azure portal, you can choose between four different routing methods: