Traffic manager allow redirecting users to appropriate endpoints based on different settings. We are using it to route users to national versions of site, depending of users location. It allows users to see information on their native language and minimize response time of web pages, because national sites are located in nearest datacenters. The main feature that entire routing is performed in a backgroud and all users could use single URL to access the site regardless of their location. The second great feature is failover option, so site remains available with the same URL regardless of it`s current location. We are using it for on-premise sites where Azure Site Recovery was configured for servers. URL remains live even after failover to Azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Implementing traffic manager can increase initial response time of site because it makes request route longer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Traffic Manager acts as single point of access for different instances and location of your application, it redirects users to most appropriate endpoint according to it`s settings. You can send traffic to instance with closest location to user, or balance multiple requests between all endpoints, or send traffic to prioritized endpoint and redirect to secondary one, if primary is not available, so it acts as a part of high-availability solution. It also has monitoring capabilities, you are able to see which of your endpoints are currently available. Using traffic manager in failover mode with disaster recovery solutions making these easier to end users, as they can access single URL and not think where is your application is currently running. Solution is vary stable and easy to deploy and configure, it works with both Azure and on-premise environments, so implementation does not requires any changes in your current infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Working fine with web facing applications only and can`t be used for administrative work on resources. It also increases response time of your resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Traafic manager is a very simple but powerful tool, that managing user connections to public facing resources. It can be used to direct users to most geographically close endpoint of your application, to direct all users to primary endpoint and switch to secondary one if primary in not available, also it can balance connections between several endpoints to avoid channel overload. It can work for both Azure or on-premise locations, provides availability monitoring for your endpoints. All endpoints remains available with only one URL. It can be used in conjunction with Azure Site Recovery, to make failovers completely transparent for end users. Users will access the same URL regardless of current active location of your resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Availability monitoring works only with 200 OK responses from web server. No customizable port forwarding through traffic manages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great solution for routing user connections to closest endpoints, decreases load for each instance of your applications and allows users to access national versions of site using the same URL regardless of users location. Simple monitoring option allows to track availability of your instances and re-route users in case of outages. Simple to deploy and maintain, very stable solution that allows you avoid many incidents related to response time and availability of your application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Increases initial response time for site, because of routing activities. Even if users being redirected to closest site initial request will go to Azure region where traffic manager is deployed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure is the most reliable traffic manager ive ever used. I have yet to experience issues from traffic thanks to azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve is difficult for new employees. They are slow to learn how to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Increase application ability

Application performance

Low server maintenance

Hybrid applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would mention price here for enterprise. Also, reliability could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More helpful in the analytical solutions and migration of the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price is high when compared to other competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to setup and deploy a new website. The manageability over other hosted services is much better and scale ability is just a couple of mouse clicks to run multiple instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new portal is pretty but the current one is my first choice because it is cleaner and easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.