Google Cloud Load Balancer

Cloud Load Balancing is a fully distributed, software-defined managed service.

A load balancer distributes user traffic across multiple instances of your applications.

By spreading the load, load balancing reduces the risk that your applications experience performance issues.

A simple overview of load balancing

Google Cloud load balancers

The following diagram summarizes the available Cloud Load Balancing products.

Choosing a load balancer

To determine which Cloud Load Balancing product to use, you must first determine

• What traffic type your load balancers must handle
• Whether you need global or regional load balancing, external or internal load balancing, and proxy or pass-through load balancing.

For details on each of these decisions, see Choosing a load balancer.

Load-balancing features:

• External and internal load balancing: You can use external load balancing when your users reach your applications from the internet and internal load balancing when your clients…