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articles/load-balancer/load-balancer-overview.md

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# What is Azure Load Balancer?
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*Load balancing* refers to evenly distributing load (incoming network traffic) across a group of backend resources or servers. Azure offers a [variety of load balancing options](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview) that you can choose from based on your need. This document covers the Azure Load Balancer.
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*Load balancing* refers to evenly distributing load (incoming network traffic) across a group of backend resources or servers.
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Azure Load Balancer operates at layer four of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It's the single point of contact for clients. Load Balancer distributes inbound flows that arrive at the load balancer's front end to backend pool instances. These flows are according to configured load balancing rules and health probes. The backend pool instances can be Azure Virtual Machines or instances in a virtual machine scale set.
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For more information on the individual load balancer components, see [Azure Load Balancer components and limitations](./concepts-limitations.md)
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>[!NOTE]
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> Azure provides a suite of fully managed load-balancing solutions for your scenarios. If you need high-performance, low-latency, Layer-4 load balancing, see [What is Azure Load Balancer?](../load-balancer/load-balancer-overview.md) If you're looking for global DNS load balancing, see [What is Traffic Manager?](../traffic-manager/traffic-manager-overview.md) Your end-to-end scenarios may benefit from combining these solutions.
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> For an Azure load-balancing options comparison, see [Overview of load-balancing options in Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview).
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## Why use Azure Load Balancer?
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With Standard Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services.
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Load balancer supports both inbound and outbound scenarios. Load balancer provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications.

articles/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-overview.md

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> Azure provides a suite of fully managed load-balancing solutions for your scenarios. If you are looking for Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol termination ("SSL offload") or per-HTTP/HTTPS request, application-layer processing, review [Application Gateway](../application-gateway/application-gateway-introduction.md). If you are looking for regional load balancing, review [Load Balancer](../load-balancer/load-balancer-overview.md). Your end-to-end scenarios might benefit from combining these solutions as needed.
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> For an Azure load-balancing options comparison, see [Overview of load-balancing options in Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/load-balancing-overview).
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Traffic Manager offers following features:
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Traffic Manager offers the following features:
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## Increase application availability
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