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Currently, I am trying to setup a traffic manager profile for our company needs. Although I read the articles and documentation, I did no find an answer. Our goal is the following:

  1. Route traffic based on domain name/website:

    abc.com - routed to West Europe / West US is a backup

    def.com - routed to West US / West Europe is a backup

Do we need to create separate traffic manager profile for each website we want to route to these regions. As I understand with custom headers it is possible to monitor different websites inside the profile, but obviously not to direct traffic using different rules for each website.

Probably, I am missing something out. Thank you in advance.

SysAdminDevops
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Azure traffic manager supports the following traffic routing methods:

Priority, Weighted, Performance, Geographic, Multivalue, Subnet.

If you want to direct traffic based on the domain name, you need to create a separate traffic manager profile for each domain. Then create two endpoints by selecting Priority routing rules in each profile.

In addition, you could have a look at the Azure front door. With Front Door, you can transform your global consumer and enterprise applications into robust, high-performing personalized modern applications with content that reach a global audience through Azure. It supports URL-path based routing for requests. You also could assign priorities to your different backends when you want to use a primary service backend for all traffic.

Nancy
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  • Hi Nancy, Thank you for the update/comment. I considered previously Azure Frond Door as an option, however, still I don't see an option for multiple subdomains/websites to be added and pointed to regions as backend endpoints. As you stated in your message, I will have to create different traffic manager profiles for each subdomain/website in order to forward traffic to primary/backup regions. – SysAdminDevops Dec 09 '20 at 15:35
  • I mean if you are using Azure front door, you can add a custom domain then create a routing rule to match the custom domain. Then the process flow will be from two custom domains---two backend pool(each pool have two websites in two different regions)---two matched routing rules in one Azure front door. But it seems that it's much more complex configurations than using two Azure TM. – Nancy Dec 10 '20 at 02:17