What Is A Multi-region Load Balancer?
A multi-region load balancer in Google Cloud Platform is a load balancer used for distributing incoming network traffic across multiple regions. This type of load balancer creates globally backed services with a backend in multiple regions, which helps ensure efficient scaling and fault tolerance in different geographical locations. Multi-regional load balancers ensure high availability and reliability. Using a multi-regional load balancer ensures traffic is directed to the closest backend, which reduces latency and improves the overall performance of an application for the users.
How To Set Up A Multi-Region Load Balancer On GCP?
Load balancing is necessary in case of any production-ready application. The load balancer is used for load balancing. The main goal here is to distribute the incoming traffic across multiple regions to ensure the high availability and high reliability of an application. Google Cloud Platform provides us with services to configure load balancers for managing traffic on the hosted application. In this article, we will be learning about global load balancers and how we can configure a multi-regional or Global load balancer using Google Cloud Platform.