IBM Cloud Load Balancer
Distribute traffic among your servers to improve uptime and easily scale your applications.
Overview
IBM Cloud Load Balancer distributes traffic among multiple server instances (bare metal and virtual server) that reside locally, within the same data center. It offers both public and private load balancers to suit different network requirements.
✨ Key Features
- Public and internal load balancers
- Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing
- Multiple load balancing methods (round robin, weighted round robin, least connections)
- Server health checks
- SSL offload
- Multi-Zone Region (MZR) support
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Integration with IBM's broader cloud and enterprise software portfolio
- Support for bare metal servers
Unique Value: Ensure high availability and scalability for your applications on the IBM Cloud platform, with support for both virtual and bare metal servers.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- Load balancing traffic among virtual server and bare metal compute instances within a data center.
🏆 Alternatives
Provides a unified load balancing solution for both virtualized and bare metal infrastructure within the IBM Cloud.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Premium, Advanced tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
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