Generally Available: Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager linked records

Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic Manager profile, eliminating the need to create a CNAME record pointing to the trafficmanager.net domain. 

This integration reduces DNS lookup latency by removing the additional CNAME lookup and enables DNSSEC compatibility for load-balanced records by removing the unsigned trafficmanager.net domain from the DNS resolution chain.