Creating Azure Traffic Manager in the Azure portal

To get started with Azure Traffic Manager in the portal, you have to click on the + Create a resource button and search for traffic manager. Then from the search results, select Traffic Manager profile. You will see a form, where you have to enter all required fields to be able to create a service:

While most of them should be self-explanatory, there is one drop-down that will require our focus, Routing method. Here you have six different methods available:

  • Performance
  • Weighted
  • Priority
  • Geographic
  • MultiValue
  • Subnet

Before we describe each and every one, you have to understand what Routing ...

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