Azure Traffic Manager

After having a good understanding of both the Azure load balancer and the application gateway, it's time to get into the details of Traffic Manager. Azure load balancers and application gateways are much-needed resources for High Availability within a data center and region; however, to achieve High Availability across regions and data centers, there is a need for another resource and that is Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager helps us to create highly available solutions that span multiple geographies, regions, and data centers. Traffic Manager is not similar to load balancers. It uses DNS to redirect requests to an appropriate endpoint determined by their health and configuration. Traffic Manager is not a proxy or a gateway. Traffic Manager does not see the traffic passing between the client and the service. It simply redirects the request based on most...