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Azure Traffic Manager vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

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

MetricAzure Traffic Manager

by Microsoft

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

by F5

Overall rating4.44.5
Review count1840
Ease of use9.49.1
Ease of setup9.68.9
Quality of support9.58.8
Meets requirements9.59.3
NPS53.33333373.529412
Small Business11.1%8.1%
Mid-Market27.8%21.6%
Enterprise61.1%70.3%
Total page views109186
Total LLM citations1231,146

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

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. LTM's full proxy architecture give users protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications.

Pros

  • Features
  • Configuration Ease
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Load Balancing
  • Simple