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What is a load balancer?

A load balancer distributes traffic across multiple instances to improve availability and throughput.

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What is a load balancer?

A load balancer distributes traffic across multiple instances to improve availability and throughput.

  • Spreads requests
  • Can health-check backends
  • Removes single-instance bottlenecks
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What is a load balancer?