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Azure Traffic Manager vs. Azure Load Balancer

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

MetricAzure Traffic Manager

by Microsoft

Azure Load Balancer

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count1830
Ease of use9.49.0
Ease of setup9.69.6
Quality of support9.58.4
Meets requirements9.59.0
NPS53.33333353.571429
Small Business11.1%36.7%
Mid-Market27.8%33.3%
Enterprise61.1%30.0%
Total page views109134
Total LLM citations123126

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

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