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

Load balancer types

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References and resources

Training and tutorials

Try Cloud Load Balancing tutorials, courses, and self-paced training from Google Cloud Skills Boost.

Training

HTTPS load balancer with Terraform

Learn how to create an HTTPS load balancer to forward traffic to a custom URL map.

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Training

External HTTP load balancer

Learn how to set up an HTTP global load balancer and how load balancing can help scale your applications on Compute Engine.

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HTTP Load Balancer with Cloud Armor

Learn how to configure an HTTP Load Balancer with global backends, stress test the Load Balancer and denylist the stress test IP address with Cloud Armor.

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Training

Network load balancer

Learn the differences between a network load balancer and a HTTP load balancer, and how to set them up for your applications running on Compute Engine virtual machines.

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Training

Internal TCP/UDP load balancer

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

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Codelab

Google Cloud networking 101

Set up a load balanced application on Google Cloud.

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Training

Hands on lab for hosting a web app on Compute Engine

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

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

Request routing to a multi-region external HTTPS load balancer

Learn how to create an HTTPS load balancer that selects backend services based on request URL paths and routes requests to backends that are close to the clients.

multi-region load balancing

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How to use UDP with Network Load Balancing

Learn how to work with Network Load Balancing using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

UDP load balancing

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Faster web performance and improved web protection for load balancing

Learn the value of adding Cloud CDN and Google Cloud Armor to an existing external HTTP(S) load balancer deployment.

CDN Cloud Armor load balancing

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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 HTTP(S) load balancer.

CDN load balancing

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Optimizing application latency with load balancing

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

latency load balancing

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Cross-region load balancing using Microsoft IIS backends

Learn how to use Google Compute Engine's HTTP(S) load balancer service to distribute traffic to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers across different Compute Engine regions.

IIS Microsoft load balancing

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Use case

Using load balancing for highly available applications

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

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Global external HTTP(S) load balancer

Create an external HTTP(S) load balancer by using Terraform

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Regional external TCP load balancer (Network Load Balancing)

Create a network load balancer by using Terraform

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Regional internal TCP/UDP load balancer

Create an internal TCP/UDP load balancer by using Terraform

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Videos