Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer is a Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) network load balancer that distributes incoming network traffic among healthy virtual machines or service instances within Azure virtual networks. It ensures high availability and scalability for applications by directing client requests to the most…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Load Balancer was created to provide a managed, scalable, and highly available solution for distributing network traffic to applications hosted on Microsoft Azure. It aimed to abstract away the complexities, costs, and management overhead associated with traditional on-premises load balancing hardware or manually configured software solutions, ensuring applications could handle varying loads and remain resilient to failures in a cloud environment.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure
Related technologies
Notable users
- Thousands of enterprises and startups globally leveraging Microsoft Azure for their infrastructure, including industries like retail, finance, healthcare, and gaming.
- Microsoft (internal services)