What is Cloud Load Balancing?

In cloud computing, load balancing is a crucial strategy that maximizes resource utilization and makes sure that no one resource is overloaded with traffic. To improve speed and scalability, workloads are divided over several computing resources, including containers, virtual machines (VMs), and servers.

Key Features of Cloud Load Balancing  

1. Single anycast IP address - Serves as the frontend for all of backend instances located in different parts of the world when Cloud Load Balancing is used. It responds instantly to variations in the network, traffic, users, etc.

2. Smooth auto-scaling - Cloud load balancing can easily handle large, sudden, and immediate surges by rerouting traffic to other parts of the globe that can handle traffic.

3. Load balancing – Software - For all the organization's cloud traffic, it is a software-driven, completely distributed solution. Operators would not be restricted to a physical load-balancing architecture or have to deal with the high availability plus management issues that come with instance-based load balancers.

4. Regional and global load balancing - Backends in one region are supported by a regional load balancer, whereas backends in different regions are bolstered by a global load balancer.

5. Enhanced support for features - Features including IPv6 load balancing, source IP-based traffic steering, user-defined request headers, and weighted load balancing are all supported by Cloud Load Balancing.