You're reading from Azure Architecture Explained A comprehensive guide to building effective cloud solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634811

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

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Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Brett Hargreaves

David Rendón

MJ Parker

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Effective and Efficient Security Management and Operations in Azure

2. Chapter 1: Identity Foundations with Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Entra FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Access to Resources Using Azure Active Directory

4. Chapter 3: Using Microsoft Sentinel to Mitigate Lateral Movement Paths

5. Part 2 – Architecting Compute and Network Solutions

6. Chapter 4: Understanding Azure Data Solutions

7. Chapter 5: Migrating to the Cloud

8. Chapter 6: End-to-End Observability in Your Cloud and Hybrid Environments

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in Azure

10. Chapter 8: Understanding Networking in Azure

11. Chapter 9: Securing Access to Your Applications

12. Part 3 – Making the Most of Infrastructure-as-Code for Azure

13. Chapter 10: Governance in Azure – Components and Services

14. Chapter 11: Building Solutions in Azure Using the Bicep Language

15. Chapter 12: Using Azure Pipelines to Build Your Infrastructure in Azure

16. Chapter 13: Continuous Integration and Deployment in Azure DevOps

17. Chapter 14: Tips from the Field

18. Index

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Load balancing refers to distributing incoming requests across servers or resources to optimize resource use, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overloading any one resource.

In this section, we will analyze the following services in two categories:

Load balance non-HTTP(S) traffic: We will discuss Azure Load Balancer (ALB) and Azure Traffic Manager (ATM)
Load balance HTTP(S) traffic: We will review Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.

The following diagram shows a high-level overview of the load balancing solutions available on Azure:

Figure 8.24 – Overview of the load balancing solutions available on Azure

At a very high level, we have the following solutions available on Azure:

Azure Load Balancer: This is a layer 4 (TCP, UDP) load balancer that distributes incoming traffic among healthy instances of services in virtual machine scale sets or individual virtual machines...

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