Load Balancer
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Load balancing refers to evenly distributing network traffic across a group of backend resources or servers
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Azure load balancer can be used for cross region load balancing in the case of Highly Available architectures
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Azure Load Balancer operates at layer 4 of OSI Model. The backedn pool instances can be Virtual Machines or instances in Virtual Machine Scale set
- Public Load Balancer
- Internal (Private) Load balancer
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Scenarios that can be accomplished by Load Balancer
- Load balance internal or external traffic to Azure VMs
- Increase availability by distributing resources within and across zones
- Using health probes to monitor load-balanced resoruces
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Follow the class room videos to understand
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