Azure Traffic Manager

- [Instructor] Previously, we've identified that … having a region level disaster could potentially … bring down the entire Azure region. … If your solution is running in that region, … even with multiple servers and a load balancer, … you will experience application downtime. … So what we need to add to the solution … is load balancing that happens at a global scale. … This is where Azure Traffic Manager comes in. … Azure Traffic Manager operates at the DNS level. … How it works is really interesting to me. … A web browser wants to connect to a web server … using a domain name, but the domain name itself … gives no clues on where in the world … the server is located, nor the path required to get there. … So the first step of connecting to the web server … is to look up the domain name … in the domain name system, or DNS. … The global domain name system will return an IP address … to the browser for that domain name. … From that point on, the browser will use the IP address … to connect to the server. …