Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing is a managed service offered by cloud providers that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple healthy backend servers or resources. This service ensures high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability for applications by preventing any…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2009
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Cloud Load Balancing was created to solve the challenges of distributing incoming network traffic efficiently, ensuring application availability and scalability, and eliminating the operational overhead associated with managing traditional on-premises load balancing hardware and software in a dynamic cloud environment.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Related technologies
- DNS Services (e.g., Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS)
- Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
- Auto Scaling Groups
- API Gateways
- Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
- Virtual Machines (e.g., AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Google Compute Engine)
- Container Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Azure Kubernetes Service)
Notable users
- Airbnb
- Spotify
- Epic Games (Fortnite)
- Netflix
- Countless enterprises and startups leveraging public cloud infrastructure.