Another way of designing for availability and scalability is copying your Web App over to multiple regions or data centers. Azure uses Azure Traffic Manager to spread the workload. Your Web App can be reached by using a single URL, where Azure Traffic Manager will handle the load and locate the closest geographical region or most suitable region for you at the DNS level.
When creating an Azure Traffic Manager profile from the Azure Portal, you can choose between four different routing methods:
- Performance: Select this method when you have endpoints in different geographical locations and you ...