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Azure Load Balancer

Deliver high availability and network performance to your apps.
OVERVIEW

Enhance app availability and scale with distributed network traffic

  • Equipped for load-balancing network layer traffic when high performance and super-low latency are needed.
    Standard Load Balancer routes traffic within and across regions, and to availability zones for high resiliency.
  • Easily deploy and scale virtual appliances with Gateway Load Balancer.
    Enables scenarios that need service-chaining such as analytics, DDoS protection, firewall, and more.  
  • Supports small-scale applications that don't need high availability or redundancy.
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