Load balancing
Explore Azure load balancing services and find the best solution for your workloads using an easy-to-use service selection tool
Improve application scalability, availability and security
Instantly scale your applications with Azure load balancing services for high availability and high performance. Get started with a quick needs assessment and load balancing recommendation—using the service selection tool.
Optimise every application with Azure load balancing services
Azure Traffic Manager
DNS-based traffic load balancer
Distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions—with DNS-based traffic routing methods. Prioritise user access, help ensure adherence to data sovereignty and adjust traffic for app upgrades and maintenance.
Supports:
- HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, TCP, UDP
- Layer 7
- Global apps
Azure Load Balancer
Network-layer load balancer
Build high availability and network performance into your applications with low-latency layer 4 load balancing capabilities. Balance traffic between virtual machines (VMs) inside your virtual networks and across multitiered hybrid apps.
Supports:
- TCP, UDP
- Layer 4
- Global and regional apps
Azure Application Gateway
Application delivery controller as a service
Transform web front ends into scalable and highly available apps using layer 7 load balancing capabilities. Distribute regional applications more securely.
Supports:
- HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2
- Layer 7
- Regional apps
- Web application firewall
- SSL/TLS offloading
Azure Front Door
Highly secure global application delivery
Deliver real-time performance of global web applications using the Microsoft global edge network. Accelerate content and transform multiple microservice applications into a single more secure app delivery architecture.
Supports:
- HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2
- Layer 7
- Global apps
- Web application firewall
- SSL/TLS offloading
Discover the right load balancing services for your organisation
Use the service selection tool
Get help choosing the best Azure cloud load balancing services for your needs. Answer a few questions about your applications, workloads and performance requirements. You will get a recommendation based on architectural best practices.
Resources
Microsoft Learn tutorials
- Overview of types of load balancing services in Azure
- Load balance your web service traffic with Application Gateway
- Encrypt network traffic end to end with Application Gateway
- Enhance your service availability and data locality by using Traffic Manager
- Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Load Balancer
- Troubleshoot inbound network connectivity for Load Balancer