Finding the Right Load Balancing Service
When choosing the right load-balancing service in Azure, it is important to consider factors such as the type of traffic being load balanced, the application architecture, and the required features. It is also important to consider factors such as cost, scalability, and ease of management. Here we will discuss how to choose the right load-balancing solution for you in the Azure Portal. We know that load balancing can always be difficult to know which one of the many services is right for you can always be a difficult challenge, so we have this new solution. If you start searching for load balancing, you’ll notice that we have this new load balancing help me choose a feature.
Now off the bat in this feature, Azures wanted the customer to be able to identify what are the different options, load balancing options in Azure today, and from a high level, what are the differences between them. And that’s what Azure tries to capture in these tiles with the three bullet notes just below the title. Now if you want to learn more about any one of these resources, a great place to start is by just clicking on the title. You’ll notice that Azure has a plethora of links available for you, including a link to the high-level documentation itself, but also highlighting the key features for this particular service, security, and monitoring since that’s essential to the lifecycle of a product, some reference architecture, so you can essentially see how this service might fit into your architecture, and pricing, since Azure know that’s always important.
Now you can essentially start answering the question about hey what service are you trying to create? So, does your application use HTTP/HTTPS? You’ll notice if you select yes, we’ll remove some of the actual tile options available to really start filtering down to what your particular environment needs. So as you continue answering this question, like is your application public,? Let’s say your application is public. It’s also deployed in multiple regions. Performance acceleration is always important to both customers and you.
Do you want SSL offloading or application layer processing per request? Now, at this point, if these questions ever become a little bit too technical or you actually don’t know potentially what SSL offloading is, for example, what you can always do is actually click on these services themselves. And if Aurzes are going to ask you a question about it, most likely Azure will actually have some links to the documentation here. So if you want to go learn more about SSL offloading, you can always click on this feature or for the front door this feature.
So, if you click to know what your application is about you can click no and move forward. And is your application hosted on PaaS? If you click yes in this question, at that point, you’ll notice that we have recommended a particular service and this is a great opportunity for you to go click on reference architecture to go see how this particular service might fit in your global environment.
Now, let’s say that you find this guided view a little bit helpful, but you actually want to dig in a little bit deeper and actually see what the differences are between the four different services available. And that’s where the service comparison comes in.
The service comparison is a grid comparing the different services across some of the most important features. So, again for load balancing, some of the high-level things, so there can support protocols for your application. Does it provide private load balancing or global load balancing? So as new features come in, Azures also start updating this list as well to make sure that you will always be able to differentiate which one of these services does well. Now if, you want to go learn more about these services, but want a bit more of a guided experience versus the experience today where you can just go click on the documentation. That’s where the tutorial comes in. So, here you will notice that we have a bunch of different MS Learn courses available that will give a more guided experience and will be a little bit more in-depth.
So if you want to go learn about application gateway, you can always come here and to the MSR resource and just go ahead and actually start this module.
Now the final thing you’ll notice is that Azure has different load-balancing services. And if you select any one of them, you’ll notice that this is the browse experience.
Microsoft Azure – Finding the Right Load Balancing Service
Pre-requisite: AZURE
We can divide incoming application traffic among many targets, such as Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, and IP addresses in our VPC, using Azure load balancer. The load balancer can increase the high availability of applications and decrease the latency for end users. Azure load balancer supports TCP and UDP protocols as well as HTTP/HTTPS and we can route the traffic to Private and Public IP addresses.