Google Cloud Load Balancing
A managed service that distributes traffic across applications for optimal performance and reliability
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Also known as
- google-cloud-load-balancing
Available worldwide
What is Google Cloud Load Balancing?
Google Cloud Load Balancing is a cloud-based platform that intelligently routes traffic to applications across multiple regions and instances. It provides Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing with integrated SSL/TLS termination, automatic scaling, multi-region support through a single global IP address, and native integration with Kubernetes.
What Google Cloud Load Balancing does
The capabilities that matter for load balancers, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Layer
- Both
- Deployment form
- Cloud managed service
- Tls termination
- ✓
- Http2 http3 support
- -
- Gslb multi region
- ✓
- K8s ingress or gateway API
- ✓
- WAF bundled
- -
- Autoscaling integration
- -
- Health check depth
- -
- Session persistence
- -
- Fips 140 validated
- -
- Open source
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Cloud Load Balancing alternatives
Other load balancers we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS Elastic Load BalancingAutomatically distribute application traffic across multiple computing resourceslow · 25%
- Envoy Proxylow · 27%
- Cloudflare Load BalancingCloud-agnostic traffic distribution with automatic multi-region failoverlow · 20%
- NGINXA lightweight, high-performance web server and reverse proxylow · 6%
- MetalLBlow · 14%
- Kemp LoadMasterlow · 8%
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.05 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.05 | 0.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Layer: both · Deployment form: cloud-managed-service · Tls termination: Yes · Gslb multi region: Yes · K8s ingress or gateway api: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-09-28 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-17 · 70% |
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