G2 Vendor Directory

Azure Load Balancer vs. Azure Traffic Manager

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Load Balancer

by Microsoft

Azure Traffic Manager

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count3018
Ease of use9.09.4
Ease of setup9.69.6
Quality of support8.49.5
Meets requirements9.09.5
NPS53.57142953.333333
Small Business36.7%11.1%
Mid-Market33.3%27.8%
Enterprise30.0%61.1%
Total page views134109
Total LLM citations126123

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer is a cloud-based service designed to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines (VMs) or virtual machine scale sets (VMSS), ensuring high availability and scalability for applications. Operating at Layer 4 of the OSI model, it efficiently manages both inbound and outbound traffic, providing low latency and high throughput for TCP and UDP applications. Key Features and Functionality: - High Availability: Distributes traffic across VMs within and across availability zones, enhancing application resilience.

Pros

  • Features
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Flexibility
  • Integrations

Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager is a cloud-based load balancing service that allows you to control the distribution of user traffic for service endpoints in different datacenters.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Setup Ease
  • Cost Saving