Azure Load Balancer is a fully managed network service in Azure that distributes incoming and outgoing traffic among healthy instances of your applications, ensuring high availability and scalability.
Key Features:
Traffic Distribution: It balances network traffic at the transport layer (Layer 4), supporting both TCP and UDP protocols.
Types:
Public Load Balancer: Routes external Internet traffic to your backend resources.
Internal Load Balancer: Distributes traffic within an Azure virtual network, ideal for private applications.
Health Probes: Regularly checks the health of your backend VMs or services, ensuring that only healthy endpoints receive traffic.
Scalability & Performance: Designed to handle high throughput with low latency, and can scale to meet changing traffic demands.
Integration: Works seamlessly with Azure Virtual Networks, Availability Sets, and Availability Zones to deliver high resilience.
Configuration Flexibility: Allows custom load balancing rules, NAT configurations, and session persistence options to match application needs.
To Create Azure Load Balancer
Login into your Azure portal, on the search bar, input load balancer then select
On the overview page scroll to load balancer and select create
Select all that applies and click Next
on the next page select +add Frontend IP configurationinput your configuration details and save
select review + create
Overall, Azure Load Balancer is essential for designing robust and resilient cloud architectures by effectively managing traffic, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring a seamless experience for end users.
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