Load Balancer

Thought leadership April 8, 2014 8 min read

Microsoft Azure Load Balancing Services

Microsoft Azure offers load balancing services for virtual machines (IaaS) and cloud services (PaaS) hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Best practices May 20, 2014 4 min read

Internal Load Balancing

We are very excited to announce the support for ‘Internal Load Balancing’ (ILB) in Azure.

August 14, 2014 3 min read

New: Configurable Idle Timeout for Azure Load Balancer

We are happy to announce that Azure Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP Idle timeout for your PaaS and IaaS Cloud Services.

Best practices October 30, 2014 4 min read

Azure Load Balancer new distribution mode

We have introduced a new distribution mode called Source IP Affinity and is also known as session affinity or client IP affinity.

February 26, 2018 5 min read

Azure Load Balancer to become more efficient

Azure recently introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform.

Announcements March 27, 2018 3 min read

The new Azure Load Balancer – 10x scale increase

Azure Load Balancer is a network load balancer offering high scalability, throughput and low latency across TCP and UDP load balancing.

Partnerships July 1, 2019 3 min read

Helping move healthcare organizations to Azure

Today’s healthcare organizations are expected to be agile, reduce costs, and direct capital toward revenue generating activities that improve patient outcomes.

August 26, 2019 4 min read

Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient

Azure introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform in late 2017.

Announcements March 3, 2021 4 min read

Improving agility, performance, and resilience with new Azure infrastructure capabilities

As our customers move beyond immediate crisis needs, such as enabling remote work, many are accelerating cloud adoption to increase competitive advantage and stay more digitally resilient.

Announcements November 11, 2021 3 min read

Enhance third-party NVA availability with Azure Gateway Load Balancer—now in preview

Today, we are announcing the preview of Gateway Load Balancer, a fully managed service enabling you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party NVAs in Azure, that builds on that capability.

Announcements March 23, 2022 3 min read

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

Starting today, Azure Load Balancer enables customers to manage port forwarding for Virtual Machine Scale Sets or a group of virtual machines in a backend pool with a single set-up with minimum management overhead.

Customer stories July 11, 2022 2 min read

How Microsoft Azure Cross-region Load Balancer helps create region redundancy and low latency

In this blog, we’ll walk through Azure Cross-region Load Balancer (also known as Global tier of Standard Load Balancer) through a case study with a retail customer.

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