Get an overview of Azure Load Balancer features, architecture, and implementation. Learn how the service works and how to use it in the cloud.
Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming network traffic across healthy Virtual Machines to deliver high availability and reliability of applications. Read more on it.
Learn what's new with Azure Load Balancer, such as the latest release notes, known issues, bug fixes, deprecated functionality, and upcoming changes.
In addition, Software Load Balancer supports tens of gigabytes per system, provides a simple provisioning model, and is easy to scale out and in.To learn how to manage Software Load Balancer policies using Windows Admin Center, see Manage Software Load Balancer for SDN....
Load balancers handle incoming requests from users for information and other services. They sit between the servers that handle those requests and the internet. Once a request is received, the load balancer first determines which server in a pool is available and online and then routes the reques...
This is the primary function of the load balancer, server load balancing (SLB). The agent can provide additional functionality based on their role in the conversation. They can decide to allow and/or deny certain details (security). They may want to validate that the person they are talking...
Azure Application Gateway is a load balancing solution provided by Microsoft. This web traffic load balancer enables you to manage traffic for your web applications.
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic (OSI layer 7) load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination...
You can monitor the load balancer’s health. The balancer will not send traffic to a server that is unavailable or unhealthy. Instead, it will reroute all new requests to one of the healthy servers. You can add servers to the pool to handle more traffic as needed. Read on to learn the...
as opposed to hardware-based load balancing, which is more common in enterprise data centers. A load balancer receives incoming traffic and routes those requests to active targets based on a configured policy. A load balancing service also monitors the health of the individual targets to ensure th...