What is IBM Cloud® Load Balancer?

With IBM Cloud load balancers, you can load balance traffic among your servers to help improve uptime. You can also easily scale your applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to your traffic flows. IBM Cloud offers both VPC and classic load balancers. For VPC infrastructure, there are two varieties of load balancers: application load balancers for VPC and network load balancers for VPC. For classic infrastructure, IBM Cloud offers several options including IBM Cloud Load Balancer and Citrix NetScaler appliances.

Features

• **Flexible features: **Choose the features best suited to your needs.
• **Traffic request layers support: **Choose between Layer 4 network and Layer 7 application load balancing capabilities within the 7-layer OSI model.
• **Deployment capabilities: **Provisioning and management can be done through the UI, API, CLI and Terraform.

Benefits

• **Quickly detect server failures: **Monitor server health to help avoid sending traffic to down servers.
• **Offload SSL handshake: **Allow servers to spend their cycles on real application processing.
• **Intelligent traffic distribution: **
• Balance traffic with round robin, weighted round robin, and least connections.