Amazon Web Services → Microsoft Azure
Azure equivalent of Route 53 routing policies and health checks
Route 53 routing policies and health checks map to Azure Traffic Manager.
About Route 53 routing policies and health checks
| Provider | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | DNS-based traffic routing (weighted, latency, failover, geolocation, geoproximity, IP-based, multivalue) with health checks. |
| Documentation | docs.aws.amazon.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Azure mappings (1)
| Capability | Azure equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| DNS-based traffic routing and failover | Azure Traffic Manager | Direct match |
DNS & DNS-based routing(1)
DNS-based traffic routing and failover Direct match
Route 53 routing policies and health checks map to Azure Traffic Manager.
- Methods. Route 53 has simple, weighted, latency, failover, geolocation, geoproximity, IP-based, and multivalue routing. Traffic Manager has priority, weighted, performance, geographic, multivalue, and subnet routing, and nested profiles to combine them.
- Integration. Route 53 routing lives in your hosted zone. Traffic Manager is a separate profile with its own trafficmanager.net name, which you point to with a CNAME (or an Azure DNS alias record).
- Alternatives. For HTTP apps, Microsoft recommends Front Door for faster failover than DNS.