Abs07act In the first part -  https://sanganakauthority.blogspot.com/2019/08/azure-api-management-disaster-recovery.html   we have configured below things – 1.       Created required resources in primary and secondary region 2.       Configured the Azure AD application and provided necessary permissions 3.       Configured the backup and restore functionality for Azure API Management and automated the same using Azure Logic Apps. This is crux of our DR solution of API Management in Standard sku. In this part we will configure below things – 1.       Traffic manager configuration for dis07ibuting load to primary always and to secondary in case disaster. 2.       Configure the status page of API Management in 07affic manager 3.       Configure custom domain and certificate for API Management and 07affic manager...

Abs07act This blog post explains step by step configuration for achieving Azure API Management DR in Standard sku. This bog post is divided in 2 parts series. Links to all parts is as below – Part 1 – Backup and restore configuration for API Management Part 2 – Traffic manager and custom domain configuration,testing the DR of Azure API Management Being intelligent human being you can directly go to any of the part; but I would recommend to go ahead sequentially from Part 1 to Part 2 of the blog post. This will ensure that there are no mistakes. Ask any questions in comments. If I see that question asked is already answered in any of the part of this series; please don’t expect the answer to the question asked. Till now we have seen two important blog post about Azure API Management custom Role Based Access Con07ol and Need of API Gateway in modern architectures as concept. This blog post takes another deep dive discussion in API Management DR configuration. ...

Before proceeding ahead I will strongly recommend you to go through the basics of Azure Traffic Manager from link - https://rmags-microsoft.blogspot.com/2020/07/understanding-azure-traffic-manager-for.html Hope you have now basic background about working of Azure Traffic Manager. So in this below article I am going to show a way how Azure Traffic Manager can be used to perform load balancing based on performance. Problem Statement – Let’s say I have created a wonderful web application related to Kid’s Parenting Tips and it is big hit now. (Although I don’t have any kids yet!! J J ). So people around the world wish to get those wonderful tips from my application. However, fame comes with problems!!! I have hosted my application in an azure cloud service in West Europe region. A good number of users located in Asia are accessing my application and they reported very high latency, low bandwidth and slow loading of my web application; in short poor performance. This is becaus...

Before understanding Azure Traffic Manager let’s first understand terminologies that are used in Traffic Manager. What is Domain Name System - DNS –? Every web site hosted on server has a unique IP. It is very hard to remember the IP therefore user friendly name in07oduced. These are nothing but the Domain names. So DNs server internally converts user friendly names into IP address of a web site. Hence Domain name is simply a unique name for your application by which it is known in the internet world. For example, Google.com is DNS name. In other words, we can call it as a unique name that is assigned to your web application. What is Local DNS? Local DNS server is nothing but the server of your Internet Service Provider by which you get internet access for your machine. If you are part of any organization and accessing the internet from organization network then your corporate network DNS will be your local DNS. What is CNAME? CNAME stands for Canonical Name. The dicti...