Load balancers

Load balancers help keep your services fast and available by spreading incoming traffic across several servers, so no single server gets overwhelmed.

Overview

• A load balancer sits in front of your servers and routes incoming traffic to them.
• If one server is busy or unavailable, traffic can go to another, helping keep your service up and responsive.
• You control which ports the load balancer listens on, which servers it sends traffic to, and how it decides where to send each request.

Manage load balancers

1. Go to Load Balancers.
2. Manage a load balancer's services (which ports it listens on and forwards to), its targets (the servers behind it), and its balancing method.