Azure VM load balancing vs Traffic Manager

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14546554/azure-vm-load-balancing-vs-traffic-manager

- VM load balancing:

1. Works only with VMs that are in the same region
2. Only does Round Robin
3. Works at the TCP/UDP level, routing traffic between one or more private endpoints that sit behind a public endpoint

Traffic Manager is different in that:

1. It can work across regions
2. It offers traffic management policies other than round robin (e.g. failover, performance)
3. It works at the DNS level, “routing”** traffic between one or more public endpoints that sit behind a common DNS name

You can indeed use the Load Balancer and the Traffic Manager in tandem

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