Traffic Manager vs Load Balancer in Azure
Many people get confused with these two services:
Traffic Manager
Load Balancer
The Traffic Manager is like the agent you find when you enter a Bank who tell you:
Take this QUEUE - you get in, until you reach the end of it.
You're attended by t...
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Ash Roberts
The Varied Life of a Tech Consultant
Love your analogy distinguishing the two.
To also note, Traffic manager is a solution for inter-regional connectivity. Where as the load balancer is specific to one region.
In your example you could just have front end public IP or IP prefix on the LB.
But I understand this is an example to clarify between the two. In real world context your traffic manager would punt traffic between multiple load balancers across Azure or even on-prem regions (banking branches)
Nice article!