What Azure services can work as load balancers and at what OSI layer do they operate?
Experience Level: Senior
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Answer
- Azure Application Gateway - operates at OSI layer 7
- Azure Load Balancer - operates at OSI layer 4 (transport layer)
- Azure Font Door - operates at OSI layer 7 (application layer - HTTP)
- Azure Traffic Manager - operates using DNS
Note that Azure API Management doesn't perform any load balancing so it should be used in conjunction with a load balancer such as Application Gateway or a reverse proxy.
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