#1 most frequent
United States of America
62.2%410 installations of 659
What is Azure Traffic Manager?
Microsoft's Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS layer to quickly and efficiently direct incoming DNS requests based on the routing method of your choice.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Azure Traffic Manager
#2 most frequent
Canada
8.2%54 installations of 659
#3 most frequent
India
6.7%44 installations of 659
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