Cloudflare Load Balancing - Multi-Cloud Traffic Management (original) (raw)

Zero-downtime deployments and multi-cloud reliability

Cloudflare Load Balancing protects your bottom line by minimizing costly downtime. Our load balancing product directs traffic across your servers, data centers, and cloud environments based on server health and user-to-origin latency, with near-instantaneous global failover.

Truly Cloud Agnostic

Unlike cloud-native load balancers that favor their own ecosystem, Cloudflare Load Balancing is vendor-neutral. Developers can seamlessly balance traffic between AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premise servers.

Faster Health Checks

We monitor origin health from multiple points across our global network. Our checks can spot connectivity issues from the rest of the world and fail over faster and more reliably.

Integrated Stack

Load Balancing works natively with the rest of Cloudflare's stack. Route traffic with Argo for performance, protect origins with the WAF, and gain insights from a single control plane.

Failover & Resilience

Active/Passive failover between two data centers or cloud regions.

Geo-Steered Delivery

Geo-Steering for data sovereignty and localization.

Testing & Deployments

Live A/B-testing and canary-deploy platform.

Multi-Cloud Architecture

Prevent vendor lock-in and enable true multi-cloud architectures with seamless traffic balancing.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory replaced on-prem hardware appliances with Cloudflare Load Balancing, removing a single point of failure and improving uptime across thousands of web servers.

Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated

Built on systems powering 20% of the Internet, Load Balancing runs on the same infrastructure Cloudflare uses to build Cloudflare. Enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance are standard.