Cloudflare Load Balancing
A global, always-on load balancer
Cloudflare Load Balancing ensures better performance, uptime and user experience by dynamically balancing traffic across geographically-distributed data centers and servers.
BENEFITS OF CLOUDFLARE LOAD BALANCING
Improved performance and resiliency
As soon as an origin server or server pool goes down, requests proxied through Cloudflare get instantly rerouted to the nearest data center — helping maximize performance and resiliency.
Increased flexibility
Load balance traffic across multiple L4-7 protocols — including HTTP(S), TCP or UDP — and tailor your configuration to support evolving business needs.
Quick, simple configuration and management
Set up a customizable and scalable load balancing infrastructure using the Cloudflare Dashboard or REST API — no additional hardware or software required.
Improve availability and web performance with our global, cloud-based load balancer
Load Balancing intelligently distributes traffic across your multicloud deployments to reduce server strain, enhance application availability and user experience, and minimize bandwidth consumption and latency.
It runs in each of our data centers across 320+ cities worldwide and is backed by our DDoS-resilient DNS — the fastest authoritative DNS in the world.
Learn how you can elevate application performance and scalability with Cloudflare
ANALYST RECOGNITION
Cloudflare only new vendor in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE)
Cloudflare has been recognized in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE) report. We believe our recognition validates our commitment to continue advancing our Zero Trust platform to help secure hybrid work.
Cloudflare named a Strong Performer in “The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2023
Cloudflare cites continued disruptive momentum in the SSE market, receiving the highest scores possible, 5.0/5.0, in the innovation, roadmap, pricing flexibility & transparency, and hybrid workforce enablement & protection criteria.
Cloudflare named a "Leader" in 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for SASE
Through its 2023 SASE market analysis, KuppingerCole Analysts AG cited several Cloudflare strengths such as our large globally distributed presence and sophisticated traffic acceleration, massive backbone capacity, 100% uptime guarantee, and innovative Remote Browser Isolation.
What our customers are saying
“The combination of Load Balancing’s geolocation steering and Cloudflare’s caching makes sure customers are getting the fastest load times possible.”
Active Solutions, Managing Director — Nigel Hepworth
TOP USE CASES
Cloudflare Load Balancing helps you maximize application availability while reducing server strain and eliminating hardware-related costs
Global traffic management (GTM)
Load balance traffic across geographically-distributed data centers to ensure application uptime and resiliency, even during surges, outages, or attacks.
Local traffic management (LTM)
With private IP support, get near real-time failover across multiple servers, whether they are deployed in a private, public or hybrid cloud.