What are load balancers?

You can load balance traffic among your servers to help improve uptime and easily scale your applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to your traffic flows.

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IBM Cloud® Application Load Balancer for VPC

IBM Cloud Application Load Balancer for VPC

Distribute Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic among multiple server instances within the same region of your virtual private cloud.

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IBM Cloud Network Load Balancer

Distribute Layer 4 client requests among workload servers to optimize the use of resources available, optimize throughput and reduce response time.

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Load balancer on classic offerings

IBM Cloud Load Balancer

Now with elasticity. Management is easier with the intuitive graphical interface and API to monitor your server health and protect against individual server failure.

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Citrix NetScaler appliances

Choose the Citrix NetScaler application delivery controller (load balancer) platform for advanced features and high-performance needs.

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Load balancer features

Flexible features and pricing

Choose the load balancing features and pricing models best suited for your unique needs and workloads.

SSL offloading

Terminate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic and establish plain-text communication to reduce the load on back-end application servers.

Hassle-free deployment

Easily manage your configuration using the graphical interface or API. Get shared and dedicated load balancing options with flexible pricing.

Load balancer benefits

Quickly detect server failures

Routinely monitor your server health to help avoid sending traffic to a down server.

Offload SSL handshake

SSL offload allows servers to spend their cycles on real application processing.

Intelligent traffic distribution

Rely on techniques such as round-robin, weighted round-robin and least connections to balance traffic.

Pricing and documentation

IBM Cloud Network Load Balancer for VPC

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Citrix NetScaler appliances

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IBM Application Load Balancer for VPC

Learn more about IBM Application Load Balancer for VPC

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IBM Cloud Load Balancer

Learn more about IBM Cloud Network Load Balancer

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Related products

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Protect your network with firewalls and security groups to better secure both servers and users from malicious activity.

Gateway appliances

Manage physical and virtual networks with network appliances including routers, firewalls, VPN tunnels and load balancers.

IBM Content Delivery Network

Leverage a content delivery network (CDN) to avoid network traffic jams and decrease latency by keeping data closer to its users.

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