Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer
Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) is a managed service that automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend servers, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances or Elastic Container Instances (ECI), to enhance application availability, scalability, and fault…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2011
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud SLB was created to solve the challenges of ensuring high availability, scalability, and efficient traffic distribution for applications in a dynamic cloud environment. Before SLB, managing traffic manually or with on-premises solutions led to single points of failure, inefficient resource utilization, and complex, time-consuming scaling operations, particularly for applications facing fluctuating demand.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Related technologies
- Alibaba Cloud RDS (Relational Database Service)
- Alibaba Cloud ECS (Elastic Compute Service)
- Alibaba Cloud ECI (Elastic Container Instance)
- Alibaba Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
- Alibaba Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network)
- Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling
Notable users
- Alibaba Group (for its internal e-commerce and payment platforms)
- Numerous enterprises in China and internationally leveraging Alibaba Cloud