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IBM Cloud Load Balancer
Simplified load balancing of your business application servers
How load balancers are used
Distribute Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic among multiple server instances.
Distribute Layer 4 client requests among workload servers.
See which option is right for your workload.
Monitor server health and protect against server failure.
Gain advanced features and high performance.
See which option is right for your workload.
Why IBM Cloud Load Balancer
Monitor server health to help avoid sending traffic to down servers.
Allow servers to spend their cycles on real application processing.
Balance traffic with round robin, weighted round robin, and least connections.
IBM Cloud Load Balancer features
Choose the features best suited to your needs.
Choose between Layer 4 network and Layer 7 application load balancing capabilities within the 7-layer OSI model.
Provisioning and management can be done through the UI, API, CLI and Terraform.
Use cases
Start your journey with free learning.
Other IBM Cloud networking products
Protect your network with firewalls and security groups to better secure both servers and users.
A streamlined Kubernetes experience to deploy and manage clusters. Scale your apps from lift-and-shift to cloud-native.
Enhanced edge network services that protect and optimize apps from DDoS attacks, data theft and bot attacks
