Designing and implementing an Azure Load Balancer service
Azure Load Balancer is a pass-through network load balancer that operates at Layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It can distribute network traffic for all Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) protocols. Because it does not modify or analyze received traffic, it is the most performant load-balancing option in Azure.
What is a pass-through network load balancer?
A pass-through network load balancer is a type of load balancer that simply forwards traffic to backend services without modifying or analyzing the content. Unlike other types of load balancers, such as application load balancers, a pass-through network load balancer does not perform any application-level processing, such as SSL termination, header manipulation, or content inspection. Instead, it simply distributes incoming traffic across a pool of backend servers based on configured rules, such as round-robin...
