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Load Balancer as a Service powered by HAProxy (or a vendor backend), with TLS termination, L4/L7 routing, autoscaling pools, and amphora-based active/standby high availability — the OpenStack equivalent of ELB / Azure Load Balancer / Cloud Load Balancing

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Sub-services (3)

Listeners

Port-level entry points for incoming traffic with optional TLS termination

Pools

Backend member pools with health checks and weighted load balancing

Amphorae

HAProxy-running VM appliances backing the L4/L7 data path

Tags

load-balancinghaproxytlsopen-source

Equivalent services on other platforms

Elastic Load BalancingAWS

Distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets with four load balancer types: Application (L7), Network (L4), Gateway (inline appliances), and Classic (legacy)

Azure Load BalancerAzure

High-performance L4 load balancing with public and internal endpoints, zonal and zone-redundant SKUs, TCP/UDP health probes, and outbound SNAT rules

Cloud Load BalancingGCP

Global software-defined L4 and L7 load balancing with a single anycast IP, cross-region failover, CDN integration, and Cloud Armor DDoS protection

Pricing

Pricing model:free