Cloud Load Balancing reliability guide

Last reviewed 2023-08-05 UTC

Cloud Load Balancing is a fully distributed, software-defined, managed service for all your traffic. Cloud Load Balancing also provides seamless autoscaling, Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing, and support for features such as IPv6 global load balancing.

Best practices

Performance best practices - how to spread load across application instances to deliver optimal performance. Strategies include backend placement in regions closest to traffic, caching, forwarding rule protocol selection, and configuring session affinity.
Using load balancing for highly available applications - how to use Cloud Load Balancing with Compute Engine to provide high availability, even during a zonal outage.

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Last updated 2023-08-05 UTC.