Load balancing

GCP offers load balancing and auto scaling for groups of instances. With load balancing, you can distribute incoming traffic to multiple virtual machine instances. This allows you to scale your application and handle heavy traffic more efficiently. The load balancer can also detect and remove unhealthy machines and re-add such instances when they become healthy.

GCP load balancer uses forwarding rules to match traffic types and forwards them to the load balancer. GCP offers the load balancer service as a managed service, which means if any components or if the load balancer fails, it will be restarted or replaced automatically.

GCP offers different types of load balancing. TCP proxy load balancing distributes TCP traffic among ...

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