{"@odata.context":"https://relcomms-prod-dagnegedescbeefs.b02.azurefd.net/api/v2/$metadata#Azure/$entity","id":"565214","productCategories":["Networking","Management and governance"],"tags":["Services","Feature"],"products":["Azure DNS","Traffic Manager"],"generalAvailabilityDate":null,"previewAvailabilityDate":"2026-08","privatePreviewAvailabilityDate":null,"title":"Public Preview: Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager integration","description":"Azure DNS now offers a seamless way to integrate with Azure Traffic Manager for DNS-based traffic routing. Customers can now directly associate Azure DNS record set with Traffic Manager profiles without creating CNAME record for trafficmanager.net domain. This improves lookup latency by eliminating a CNAME hop and enables DNSSEC compatibility for load balanced records by removing unsigned trafficmanager.net domain from CNAME lookup chain.<p><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/dns/dns-traffic-manager-linked-records\">Learn more</a>.</p>","status":"In preview","created":"2026-08-04T17:04:55.0175872Z","modified":"2026-08-04T17:04:55.0175872Z","locale":null,"availabilities":[{"ring":"Preview","year":2026,"month":"August"}]}