Microsoft Azure → Amazon Web Services
AWS equivalent of Azure Traffic Manager
The closest AWS equivalent of Azure Traffic Manager is Route 53 routing policies and health checks.
About Azure Traffic Manager
| Provider | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | DNS-based global traffic routing (priority, weighted, performance, geographic, multivalue, subnet) with endpoint health monitoring and nested profiles. |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
AWS mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| DNS-based traffic routing and failover | Route 53 routing policies and health checks | 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.