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What is Cloud Load Balancer?

A managed service that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure high availability and optimal resource utilization.

Cloud load balancers automatically distribute traffic across healthy backend instances. Layer 4 (transport) load balancers route based on IP and port, while Layer 7 (application) load balancers make decisions based on HTTP headers, URLs, and cookies. Major services include AWS ALB/NLB, Azure Load Balancer, and Google Cloud Load Balancing. Features include health checks (removing unhealthy instances), SSL termination, sticky sessions, WebSocket support, and integration with auto-scaling groups. Global load balancers route traffic across regions for disaster recovery. Cloud load balancers eliminate single points of failure and enable zero-downtime deployments.

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Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.
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An abstraction that provides a stable network endpoint for accessing a group of Pods, handling load balancing and service discovery.
Auto Scaling
Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.
Cloud-Native
An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
A cloud service model providing virtualized computing resources like servers, storage, and networking over the internet.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Strategies and practices to reduce and control cloud computing expenses while maintaining performance and availability.
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