Overview
- Software defined
- No hardware—reacts instantly, handles spikes with no warm-up
- Layer 4 and layer 7
- Integrates with Cloud CDN
Regional Load Balancing
- IPv4
- Health checks
- Session affinity
- Backends in one region
- Compliance use case—traffic stays within region
Global Load Balancing
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Multi-region failover
- Connects clients to closest region for lower latency
- Backends distributed across regions
HTTP(S) Load Balancer
Backends
| Backend Config | Content Type | Backend Types |
|---|---|---|
| Backend service | Dynamic | Unmanaged instance groups Managed instance groups Network Endpoint Groups |
| Backend bucket | Static | Cloud Storage buckets |