Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

Azure Load Balancer

Let us clarify the question first: What is the Azure Load Balancer? The Azure Load Balancer is a load distribution module for incoming traffic at layer 4 (OSI Reference Model's transportation layer). It provides the even distribution of network traffic across all instances of an application running in the same Azure Data Center.

Currently, there are two types of load balancers:

• Internet-facing Load Balancer: This load balancing module performs the mapping of the incoming data traffic to the private IP addresses and port numbers of the virtual machines and, conversely, also maps the response traffic from the virtual machine to the clients.

The load balancing module requires the following additional resources to perform ...