Microsoft pulls its crowd-control tech from out of the shadows

November 23 2013
Microsoft pushed its Windows Azure load balancing technology into general availability amid a widespread DNS disruption.

The rollout of "Traffic Manager" was announced on Thursday, and the tech lets admins apply a policy engine to DNS queries to domain names hosted on Azure.

The tech works by redirecting user queries to a Traffic Manager domain maintained by Windows Azure Traffic Manager via a CNAME record, which resolves the domain and shuttles the query to the appropriate cloud service.

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