Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute user traffic optimally to service endpoints across global Azure regions. It provides high availability and responsiveness for your applications by routing requests to the healthiest and closest…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2013
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Traffic Manager was created to solve the challenge of distributing user traffic globally across multiple service deployments to ensure high availability, improve responsiveness, and provide disaster recovery capabilities for cloud-hosted applications. Before ATM, achieving this required complex, often on-premises, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solutions or intricate manual DNS configurations, which were difficult to scale and manage.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure
Related technologies
Notable users
- SaaS providers hosting services on Azure
- Organizations requiring high availability and disaster recovery across regions
- Enterprises leveraging Azure for global applications