Need a low-cost inbound traffic management and load balancing solution? Want to set it up in minutes? Azure Traffic Manager is your best option
Pros
- Performance DNS Load Balancing for Lowest Latency Endpoint to Clients
- Priority-Based DNS Load Balancing to ensure maximum up time for a service
- Geographic-based DNS Load Balancing to force certain clients in certain regions to connect to specific endpoints
Cons
- Traffic View is a great feature, but doesn't work very well, sometimes it gets stuck and stops loading traffic view data
- Automatic probing for endpoints sometimes gets stuck too, I would recommend a technique to test the endpoint in real time from Azure Portal
- Traffic View heatmap is buggy and doesn't point correctly to locations
- Traffic View portal doesn't show source countries (Shows coordinates) it would be much more helpful to have coordinates auto-translated to geolocations/countries
Most Important Features
- Performance DNS Load Balancing
- High Availability for Services across Multiple Datacenters
- High Availability & Load Balancing for Inbound Traffic Across Multiple Internet Links
Return on Investment
- Service cost is exceptionally low
- Overall, this product saves a lot of money for the value it provides and it isn't expensive
- It's around half a dollar per million queries, which is truly peanuts, extras may be required if you do advanced configuration
- I can't see any reason why any business wouldn't be using this product, very low investment for a very high return and savings
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Route 53
Other Software Used
Azure App Service, Kasm Workspaces, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure Databases, Azure Front Door, Azure Application Gateway