Load balancing for reliability
How frontend and datacenter load balancing distribute traffic and contribute to highly available services.
Load balancing for reliability
How frontend and datacenter load balancing distribute traffic and contribute to highly available services.
Frontend vs internal load balancing
Frontend load balancers sit at the edge and route user requests to nearby or healthy regions.
Internal load balancers distribute traffic across service instances within a region or datacenter.
Failure handling
Health checks, connection draining, and retry logic ensure that traffic moves away from unhealthy instances quickly.
Global load balancing can steer traffic away from entire regions during major outages.
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