Virtual Machines
Virtual machines sized for your workload, billed per second.
Learn moreLoad Balancers
Distribute traffic across your virtual machines and keep it away from unhealthy ones. The guided setup ends with a review of exactly what will be sent before the load balancer is created.
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Spread traffic across healthy instances with a guided setup.
Guided in six steps
Details, listener, pool, members, health monitor, and review.
Health-aware
Health monitors keep traffic away from members that stop responding.
Exactly what you see
The review shows the precise request that will be sent.
In the console
Configure the pool and the probe
Pick a balancing algorithm and tune how members are checked: delay, timeout, retries, and, for HTTP, the URL path and expected codes.
- Round robin, least connections, or source IP
- Members can be added now or later
- VIP assigned automatically or fixed
Features
Listeners
Protocol and port for incoming traffic.
Pools and algorithms
Round robin, least connections, or source IP.
Members
Your virtual machines as backend targets, now or later.
Health monitors
Type, delay, timeout, max retries; URL path and expected codes for HTTP.
Virtual IP
A VIP in the subnet you choose, assigned automatically or fixed.
Detail view
Listeners, pools, members, and monitors with their status.
How it works
Details
Name, subnet, and VIP.
Listener
Protocol and port.
Pool
Balancing algorithm.
Members
Backend targets.
Health monitor
Probe configuration.
Review
Check and create.
Specifications
| Setup | Guided, six steps |
|---|---|
| Network | VIP in your subnet, automatic or fixed |
| Listener | Protocol and port |
| Algorithms | Round robin, least connections, source IP |
| Members | Virtual machines |
| Health monitor | Type, delay, timeout, max retries |
| HTTP probes | URL path and expected codes |
| Region | Istanbul 1 |
Use cases
Highly available web apps
Spread traffic over several web servers so no single instance is critical.
Scale-out APIs
Add members as load grows.
Maintenance without downtime
Take a member out of the pool while the others keep serving.
FAQ
Which balancing algorithms are available?
Round robin, least connections, and source IP.
What if I don’t add a health monitor?
Members are not actively checked. Add a monitor so traffic avoids members that stop responding.
Can I add members later?
Yes, from the load balancer’s detail page.
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