Azure load balancer

1. What is Load Balancer in Azure?
2. What is the use of Load Balancer in Azure?
3. How many load balancers are in Azure?
4. Is Azure Load Balancer IaaS or PaaS?

What is Load Balancer in Azure?

An Azure load balancer is a Layer-4 (TCP, UDP) load balancer that provides high availability by distributing incoming traffic among healthy VMs. A load balancer health probe monitors a given port on each VM and only distributes traffic to an operational VM.

What is the use of Load Balancer in Azure?

Why use Azure Load Balancer? With Azure Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services. Load balancer supports both inbound and outbound scenarios. Load balancer provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications.

How many load balancers are in Azure?

There are three load balancers in Azure: Azure Load Balancer, Internal Load Balancer (ILB), and Traffic Manager.

Is Azure Load Balancer IaaS or PaaS?

Microsoft Azure offers load balancing services for virtual machines (IaaS) and cloud services (PaaS) hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Load balancing allows your application to scale and provides resiliency to application failures among other benefits.