Azure-docs: Traffic Manager

[taromielnaz]

What is the difference between the traffic manager and front door? What is the benefit of the front door? I found them similar to each other.

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• ID: dbadca96-7341-36d0-8a38-1c6a5c96b22d
• Version Independent ID: 2fad91dc-25f8-0c7a-c21d-93986ec51145
• Content: Azure Front Door Service
• Content Source: articles/frontdoor/front-door-overview.md
• Service: frontdoor
• GitHub Login: @sharad4u
• Microsoft Alias: sharadag

[KrishnaG-MSFT]

@taromielnaz Thanks for your comment. We are actively investigating and will get back to you shortly.

[SubhashVasarapu-MSFT]

@taromielnaz, Global load balancing services such as Traffic Manager and Front Door distribute traffic from your end users across your regional backends, across clouds or even your hybrid on-premises services.
Traffic manager looks at the DNS requests and responds with a healthy backend in accordance with the routing policy the customer has selected. The client connects directly to that backend. Azure Traffic Manager detects when a backend is unhealthy and then redirects the clients to another healthy instance.
Azure Front Door Service provides dynamic website acceleration (DSA) including global HTTP load balancing. It looks at incoming HTTP requests routes to the closest service backend/region for the specified hostname. It always routes traffic to the fastest and available (healthy) backend.
You can follow this document for better understanding of choosing a global load balancer.

We are closing this issue for now. If there are further questions regarding this matter, please reply and we will gladly continue the discussion.

[BirenNegi]

Ok now got it

[SidShetye]

Why is the information in this ticket not in the actual documentation? This is the exact issue we had until we dug deeper when trying to open a new issue.

EDIT: To clarify, this is tucked away much deeper into the docs but needs to be surface or at least linked earlier to reduce confusion ("Consult this page for differences between Traffic manager and Front door").