Load Balancing
A managed load balancer is planned for Origin Cloud — traffic distribution across instances with health checks and failover. This page describes what we intend to build.
Features
Traffic Distribution
Distribute requests across a target pool of instances in one or more VPC subnets.
Health Checks
TCP or HTTP probes on a configurable interval; unhealthy targets leave rotation automatically.
Advanced Routing
Support for HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP routing with custom rules for content-based traffic distribution.
Use Cases
High Availability Applications
Keep serving when an instance dies: failed health checks pull a target out of rotation.
Scalable Web Services
Add instances to a target pool and they take traffic on the next health-check pass — no DNS change.
Multi-Tier Architectures
Route traffic efficiently between tiers, such as web servers and backend databases.
Planned Service
Note: Load Balancing is not yet built. This page describes the service we intend to offer, and its priority follows customer feedback.
Register to get started with what's live today, or check our Launch Strategy for this service's timeline.
New organisations are reviewed before the first launch — open beta runs on limited capacity, so we check we can host you, usually within a few hours.