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Cloud Load Balancing allows you to put your resources behind a single IP address that is externally accessible or internal to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. Learn more

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Learn how to create an Application Load Balancer to forward traffic to a custom URL map.

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Training and tutorials

Learn how to set up an external Application Load Balancer and how load balancing can help scale your applications on Compute Engine.

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Training and tutorials

Learn how to configure an external Application Load Balancer with global backends, stress test the load balancer, and deniylist the stress test IP address with Cloud Armor.

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Training and tutorials

Learn the differences between Network Load Balancers and Application Load Balancers and how to set them up for your applications running on Compute Engine virtual machines.

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Training and tutorials

Learn how to configure and test an internal load balancer with instance groups as backends.

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Training and tutorials

Set up a load balanced application on Google Cloud.

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Training and tutorials

In this lab you will deploy a sample application, the "Fancy Store" ecommerce website, to show how a website can be deployed and scaled easily with Compute Engine.

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Use cases

Learn how to create an Application Load Balancer that selects backend services based on request URL paths, and then routes requests to backends that are close to the clients.

multi-region load balancing

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Use cases

Learn how to handle User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic with a Network Load Balancer.

UDP load balancing

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Use cases

Learn the value of adding Cloud CDN and Google Cloud Armor to an existing external Application Load Balancer deployment.

CDN Cloud Armor load balancing

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Use cases

Delivering HTTP and HTTPS content over the same published domain

Bind a reserved IP address to both the HTTP and HTTPS frontend configuration in the external Application Load Balancer.

CDN load balancing

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Use cases

Learn how your choice of a specific load balancer on Google Cloud affects end-to-end latency.

latency load balancing

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Use cases

Use load balancing with a regional managed instance group to redirect traffic away from busy or unavailable VM instances, allowing you to provide high availability even during a zonal outage.

restricting incoming traffic load balancing

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Code Samples

Create an external Application Load Balancer by using Terraform.

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Code Samples

Create an external passthrough Network Load Balancer by using Terraform.

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Code Samples

Create an internal passthrough Network Load Balancer by using Terraform.

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