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Redirecting Traffic Based On Priority Using Azure Traffic Manager

For any web application to work there has to be an associated end point, which means whenever users sends a request, endpoint is the first thing which gets hit. If I say in simple term, endpoint is an internet facing service which could be hosted either in Microsoft Azure or outside of Azure. What is Azure Traffic Manager Now what is  Traffic Manager ? As it’s name suggests, it manages the traffic. It distributes the traffic across various Azure regions along with health monitoring capabilities. So, if you are planning for a multi-region support with high availability, it could be a perfect service for you.   Now, you must be thinking, what is the core which is making this happen? Actually it uses the DNS to route traffic to endpoints based on the selected Traffic Manger profile  and the configured routing mechanisms. I’ll shortly mention about what all routing methods are available but before that let’s take a quick look at some of the major benefits which we can achieve using Traff