Traffic Manager

Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability.

Overview

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer. This service allows you to distribute traffic to your public facing applications across the global Azure regions. Traffic Manager also provides your public endpoints with high availability and quick responsiveness.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/traffic-manager/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/traffic-manager/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/traffic-manager/
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News

Date News
11/3/2025
This post provides an update to the Tech Community article ‘Important Changes to App Service Managed Certificates: Is Your Certificate Affected?’ and covers the latest changes introduced since...
10/2/2025
Azure Traffic Manager has introduced new health check infrastructure to improve the resiliency and scalability of the service. This infrastructure is now available, and customers are being moved...
7/21/2025
Overview  As part of an upcoming industry-wide change, DigiCert, the Certificate Authority (CA) for Azure App Service Managed Certificates (ASMC), is required to migrate to a new validation...
5/21/2025
Azure Traffic Manager has raised its service level agreement (SLA) to 100% for global DNS resolution, ensuring that all DNS queries consistently resolve to a healthy endpoint. No changes are...
5/21/2025
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now supports DNS-based public load balancing, delivered via a Kubernetes-native integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Kubernetes services placed on...