Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads across computing resources in a cloud computing environment and carefully balancing the network traffic accessing those resources.
Cloud load balancing helps enterprises achieve high-performance levels for potentially lower costs than traditional load balancing technology.
Cloud load balancing takes advantage of the cloud's scalability and agility to meet the demands of distributed workloads with high numbers of client connections.
In contrast to server load balancing, which distributes traffic across a cluster of servers situated in a single data center, cloud load balancing typically distributes workloads across servers in a cloud environment administered by a single cloud provider.
Cloud load balancing takes a software-based approach to distributing network traffic across resources, as opposed to hardware-based load balancing, which is more common in enterprise data centers.
Cloud load balancing offers a variety of features for cloud environments.
Cloud load balancing can typically support advanced features including IPv6 load balancing, WebSockets, user-defined request headers, source IP-based traffic steering, weighted load balancing and protocol forwarding for private virtual IP addresses.
Integration with CDN is also included for the distribution of cached content as both the traditional application load balancer and the global external application load balancer support cloud CDN. Cloud load balancing algorithms are essential components of cloud computing environments because they assure optimal resource use.
Cloud load balancing plays a crucial role in cloud computing and offers several benefits.
Cloud load balancing facilitates seamless scalability within cloud environments.
Organizations can save money by deploying software-based load balancing in the cloud as it's cheaper than installing, housing, configuring and maintaining on-premises load balancing machines.
If a snowstorm causes a power outage to happen in the northeastern U.S., the cloud load balancer can redirect traffic from cloud resources hosted in that region to resources located in other parts of the country.
Adjusting or fine-tuning load balancer settings might be limited for businesses using load balancing in the cloud.
Some load balancing options might provide limited cloud visibility into the underlying infrastructure of the cloud computing environment, which can make it difficult to troubleshoot issues and optimize performance.
Cloud load balancing as a service is the application of load balancing technology within a cloud computing framework, where cloud providers offer load balancing as a managed service.
By adopting LBaaS, customers can rent load balancing services on a flexible basis, eliminating the need to configure upgrades and maintain dedicated on-premises load balancing appliances.
Instead, the cloud provider assumes the management of the load balancing service, distributing workloads across servers running in the cloud environment.
Elastic Load Balancing supports three types of load balancers: Application, Network and Gateway.
The Cloud Load Balancing service available on the Google Cloud Platform is built on the same front-end server infrastructure that powers Google.
The service offers a range of load balancers that vary depending on whether the customer needs external or internal load balancing, global or regional load balancing, Premium or Standard network service tiers, proxy or pass-through services, among other factors.
This Cyber News was published on www.techtarget.com. Publication date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:43:06 +0000