Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details

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This post introduces Cloudflare Traffic Manager, a new capability focused on advanced traffic management. It details the monitoring and load-balancing features, emphasizing its ability to provide fast failover (seconds), per-data center decision making, and integration with Cloudflare's Anycast DNS infrastructure. The post highlights flexible configuration options for load balancing, failover (including cross-cloud provider support), and geo-steering, and explains how Cloudflare itself uses Traffic Manager for its website. It also announces an Early Access program for the feature.