Optimizing Cloud Performance with Azure Load Balancing

Jiadong Chen
2 min readMay 1, 2024
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 FrontDoor provides global load balancing and site acceleration for web applications. Azure TrafficManager is a DNS-based load balancer distributing traffic optimally across global Azure regions.
- https://lnkd.in/gRFhz_i4
- https://lnkd.in/gWzpcJMf

🎯 Azure ApplicationGateway is a web traffic (OSI layer 7) load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Azure LoadBalancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency load balancer for all UDP and TCP protocols.
- https://lnkd.in/gBTDRq-B
- https://lnkd.in/g6FqAvbS

🌐 HTTP(S) services like Azure ApplicationGateway and Azure FrontDoor are ideal for web applications, offering features such as SSL offload, web application firewall, and…

--

--

Jiadong Chen
Jiadong Chen

Written by Jiadong Chen

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