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Xilang
Xilang

Reputation: 1513

How GCE HTTP Cross-Region Load Balancing implemented

As I know, for cross region load balancing, it is usually implemented as DNS-based load balancing, it assigns different IP address for different region.

However for GCE, as described at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/cross-region-example, it assgins only one IP address, then which region this IP address is assgined to? How the network traffic is forward? Will it increase the network latency?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 977

Answers (1)

Faizan
Faizan

Reputation: 1967

Google HTTP/HTTPS load balancer does't require DNS-based load balancing. It uses a Global IP address which receives the user request. The traffic is routed internally within Google datacenter as such, incoming requests are sent to the region closet to the user with remaining capacity. The information is documented on this link.

Upvotes: 3

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