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Overview of Flexible Network Load Balancer

Describes what network load balancers are, and how to get access to links that
provide details on
specific network load balancer topics.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Flexible Network Load Balancer
service (Network Load Balancer)
provides automated traffic distribution from one entry point to multiple backend servers
in your virtual
cloud network (VCN). It operates at the connection level and load
balances incoming client connections
to healthy backend servers based on Layer 3/Layer 4
(IP protocol) data. The service offers a load
balancer with your choice of a regional
public or private IP address that is elastically scalable and scales
up or down based on
client traffic with no bandwidth configuration requirement.

Network Load Balancer provides

the benefits of flow high availability, source and destination IP
addresses, and port
preservation. It is designed to handle volatile traffic patterns and millions of flows,
offering high throughput while maintaining ultra low latency. Network load balancers
have a default 1
million concurrent connection limit. Network Load Balancer is the
ideal load balancing solution for
latency sensitive workloads.

Network Load Balancer is also

optimized for long-running connections in the order of days or months.
A given flow is
always forwarded to the same backend for the lifetime of the connection, making it best
suited for your database type applications. You can configure application-specific
health checks to
ensure that the load balancer directs traffic only to healthy
backends.

The Network Load Balancer

documentation contains the following major sections:

Introduction to Network Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer Management

Health Status for Network Load Balancers

Backend Sets for Network Load Balancers

Backend Servers for Network Load Balancers

Listeners for Network Load Balancers

Health Check Policies for Network Load Balancers

Work Requests for Network Load Balancers

Network Load Balancer Metrics

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