Load Balancer

Kemp is well-known for its load-balancing solutions, which distribute network traffic efficiently across multiple servers or resources to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of applications. Their load balancers help organizations manage traffic for web applications, websites, and other network services.

Kemp offers ADCs that provide advanced features like content switching, SSL offloading, caching, and application firewall capabilities. These devices are crucial for optimizing the delivery of applications while enhancing security and reducing server load.

Kemp's solutions are designed to support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, allowing businesses to deploy their applications across a combination of on-premises data centers and public or private cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others.

Kemp provides a Web Application Firewall that protects applications from various cyber threats, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other common web vulnerabilities. This helps enhance the security of web applications and data.

GSLB solutions from Kemp enable organizations to distribute application traffic across geographically dispersed data centers or cloud regions. This ensures high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.

Kemp provides tools and features for monitoring and analyzing application traffic, performance, and health, helping IT teams identify and resolve issues quickly.

Azure Load Balancer uses various load-balancing algorithms, including round-robin, least connections, and hash-based distribution, to evenly distribute incoming traffic among the backend resources.

Azure Load Balancer supports both public and private scenarios. Public Load Balancer provides a public IP address and routes traffic from the internet to backend resources. Private Load Balancer handles internal traffic within a Virtual Network (VNet).

It helps ensure high availability by distributing traffic across multiple healthy VM instances or resources. If a VM becomes unhealthy or fails, Azure Load Balancer automatically redirects traffic to healthy instances.

Load Balancer continually monitors the health of backend resources using health probes. These probes can be configured to check the status of application endpoints, and if a resource fails the probe, it is temporarily removed from the load-balanced pool.

Azure Load Balancer supports session affinity (also known as session persistence or sticky sessions) to direct subsequent requests from a client to the same backend resource, which can be important for certain application scenarios.

You can configure frontend IP configurations, including public IP addresses, ports, and protocols, as well as backend address pools, rules, and NAT configurations to meet the specific needs of your application.

Azure offers different types of load balancers, including Basic and Standard Load Balancers. Standard Load Balancers provide more advanced features like multiple VIPs, zone-redundant configurations, and more.

Azure Load Balancer can distribute traffic among VMs in the same availability set, VMs across multiple availability zones (for highly available applications), or even across different VNets using a global VNet peering configuration.

Azure Load Balancer is designed to be highly secure, and it can work in conjunction with Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control traffic flows and enhance security.