Cloud Load Balancer
A cloud load balancer is a managed service that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple backend instances, containers, or services, improving availability, scalability, and fault tolerance by ensuring no single backend is overwhelmed and by routing around unhealthy targets.
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Autoscaling
Autoscaling is the automated adjustment of compute resources — adding or removing instances, containers, or pods — in response to real-time demand, load, or de…
Cold Start
A cold start is the added latency incurred when a serverless function, container, or newly-scaled instance must be initialized from scratch — provisioning reso…
Cloud Region
A cloud region is a distinct geographic location where a cloud provider operates a cluster of data centers, offering a full set of independently-operated servi…
Availability Zone
An availability zone (AZ) is one or more physically separate data centers within a cloud region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking, designed…
Egress Cost
Egress cost (or data transfer cost) is the fee cloud providers charge for data leaving their network — to the public internet, to another cloud region, or to a…
Cloud Load Balancer
A cloud load balancer is a managed service that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple backend instances, containers, or services, improving avai…
Observability Pipeline
An observability pipeline is the infrastructure that collects, processes, routes, and stores telemetry data — logs, metrics, and traces — from applications and…
SLO
An SLO (Service Level Objective) is a specific, measurable target for a service's reliability — such as '99.9% of requests succeed within 300ms over a rolling…