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Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic across backend services and supports scalable, highly available application delivery in GCP.
What it does
Managed load balancing service.
When to use
Use Cloud Load Balancing when you need traffic distribution and resilience for public or internal services.
Key Concepts
Load balancers route traffic to healthy backends.
Health checks affect routing decisions.
Useful for scalable and resilient services.
Often sits in front of Compute Engine or GKE workloads.
Common Use Cases
Distributing traffic across instances.
Improving web service resilience.
Serving applications at scale.
Interview Questions
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