Let’s talk Load Balancing in Azure!

Jiadong Chen
2 min readOct 12, 2023
source: Microsoft

Load Balancing distributes workloads across multiple resources, improving your cloud experience and performance. Azure Load Balancing services can be categorized as global or regional, and HTTP(S) or non-HTTP(S). This post will guide you on how to optimize your resource use, maximize throughput, and ensure high availability. Stay tuned! 🚀

Global services distribute traffic across regional back-ends, while regional services distribute traffic within a region.

🌍 Azure Front Door provides global load balancing and site acceleration for web applications. Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based load balancer distributing traffic optimally across global Azure regions.

🎯 Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic (OSI layer 7) load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency load balancer for all UDP and TCP protocols.

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Jiadong Chen

Microsoft MVP, MCT | Azure Certified Solutions Architect & Cybersecurity Architect Expert | Member of .NET Foundation | Packt Author