Load Balancer
Learn how load balancers optimize network traffic for improved performance and fault tolerance in this lesson.
What is an Azure load balancer?
In Microsoft Azure, the Azure load balancer allows us to distribute traffic across our applications and resources. Distributing traffic between multiple servers, resources, and availability zones offers high availability and network performance.
Types of loader balancers
Public
Internal
Public load balancer: Public load balancers distribute traffic from external clients to internal servers. They are typically used for applications such as web servers, email servers, and file servers. Public load balancers have a public IP address accessible to clients online.
Public load balancers serve various purposes, including:
Ensuring accessibility to internet-based applications like web servers, email servers, and file servers. ...