Azure Load Balancer flavors

Azure Load Balancers can be classified based on performance (such as a basic load balancer or a standard load balancer) or purpose (such as a public load balancer for internet-facing scenarios or an internal load balancer for whatever you want to balance within your environment).

Basic Azure Load Balancer

This is the traditional Azure Load Balancer that has been around for a while. Throughout this chapter, plenty of information about this type is covered.

Mainly the basic load balancer does provide traffic distribution for the applications providing higher availability and better network performance. Considering that it detects the health state of the instances across which it distributes the traffic to make sure that the traffic is being distributed to the proper instances.

Standard Azure Load Balancer

The standard load balancer provides better resiliency and scalability. This type should unlock many scenarios, such as a 1,000-instance virtual machine scale set, availability...