Generally Available: Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager linked records
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- Azure Updates · original
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573917- Availability
- General Availability: October 2026
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- Features, Management and governance, Networking
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Description
Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic Manager profile, eliminating the need to create a CNAME record pointing to the trafficmanager.net domain.
This integration reduces DNS lookup latency by removing the additional CNAME lookup and enables DNSSEC compatibility for load-balanced records by removing the unsigned trafficmanager.net domain from the DNS resolution chain. Learn more.
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