Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details

Cloudflare has introduced its new product, Traffic Manager, which aims to provide monitoring and load-balancing features for users. The company built this product on its existing Anycast DNS infrastructure, benefiting from its resilient DDoS protection and fast DNS performance. Traffic Manager is designed to be flexible and can support various use cases such as load balancing, failover, and geo-steering configurations. It also offers health checking functionality that allows users to define what a healthy origin means to them. The product is currently in the Early Access program, which requires some additional technical savvy and feedback from participants. Traffic Manager will be available to all Cloudflare customers later this year with usage-based charges.