A DNS-based load balancer that distributes user traffic across endpoints in different Azure regions or external locations. It supports several routing methods: performance, geographic, priority, and weighted.
The solution for global traffic distribution in AZ-104 and AZ-900. Key difference: it operates at the DNS level, not in the data path. Question: how do you route European users to the Europe region and American users to East US? Traffic Manager with geographic routing.
Azure Traffic Manager is a concept that can show up on the exam. Check the full guide to see it in context.