Cloud Load Balancing

Global L4 and L7 traffic routing.

Distribute traffic across instances, containers, and serverless backends. Global anycast with SSL termination, health checks, and auto-scaling.

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L4 + L7

Layers

Global

Reach

Auto-managed

TLS

Active checks

Health

Traffic, balanced.

Global L4/L7 with managed TLS.

L4 & L7 balancing

TCP/UDP (L4) and HTTP/HTTPS (L7) with path-based and header-based routing.

Global anycast

Single IP address routes to the nearest healthy backend worldwide.

Managed TLS

Automatic SSL certificate provisioning and renewal with Let's Encrypt.

Health checks

Active and passive health checking with configurable thresholds.

WebSocket support

Persistent WebSocket connections with graceful upgrade.

WAF integration

Built-in Web Application Firewall with OWASP rules.

Getting started

Launch your first instance in three steps. CLI, console, or API — your choice.

Terminal
ur lb create web-lb \
  --type=http --global

Load balancing patterns.

Web apps and global traffic management.

Web application balancing

HTTP/HTTPS load balancing with path-based routing.

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Suggested configuration

L7 · TLS · WAF · Health checks

Estimate your costs

Create detailed configurations to see exactly how much your architecture will cost. Pay for what you use, down to the second.

Configuration 1

Estimated: $94.00/mo

Load Balancer

Traffic & Bandwidth

GB

Add-ons

Advanced Logging & AnalyticsDetailed flow logs (+$0.01/GB)
Multi-region backend groupsActive-active failover
Config 1 cost$94.00

Cost details

$94.00

SSL termination, health checks, WebSocket support included.

Configuration 1
$94.00
Data Processing$4.00
5 Endpoint(s)$90.00
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Works seamlessly with

Compute
VPC
WAF
IAM
Logging
Monitoring

Frequently asked questions

Traffic, balanced.

Global L4/L7 load balancing with managed TLS.

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