Microsoft announced that it has added geographic routing capability to Azure Traffic Manager, which allows users to localize content specific to regions, enhances data sovereignty. It allows users to partition their user base by continent, country or even a particular state, and serve them using the nearest endpoint.
For example, you can serve users from Australia and New Zealand using Microsoft Azure’s region/endpoint in Australia East, and users in California from Azure’s endpoint in US West. This will be extremely useful for users who want to tailor their content based on a particular region or location, as it allows you to control the flow of traffic to your application based on geographical location.
“Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager allows you to control the distribution of user traffic for service endpoints in different datacenters.” – Microsoft
Content delivery networks reduce the load on your servers by serving your users from the nearest endpoint, where it keeps a cache of your content. Azure Traffic Manager takes things a step further by allowing its customer to take control of how traffic flows to and fro from the application.
A global bank with operations in the United States and the United Kingdom can, for example, deliberately make all users from United States access Azure’s US West region/endpoints, and all users from the United Kingdom access Azure’s Northern Europe region/endpoints.
Microsoft charges $0.54 per million queries to Traffic Manager for the first billion queries. If you go over a billion, you pay $0.375 per million.
Thanks for reading our work! We invite you to check out our Essentials of Cloud Computing page, which covers the basics of cloud computing, its components, various deployment models, historical, current and forecast data for the cloud computing industry, and even a glossary of cloud computing terms.
About the Author:
Shudeep Chandrasekhar is the Chief Opinion Officer at 1redDrop.com
Follow him on twitter
Reference:
Chandrasekhar, S. (2017). Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Could Help with Data Sovereignty Concerns – 1redDrop. [online] Available at: http://1reddrop.com/2017/03/23/microsoft-azure-traffic-manager-data-sovereignty-concerns-enterprise-customers/ [Accessed 27 Nov. 2017].