- Release Notes and Announcements
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Quick Start
- Operation Guide
- Practical Tutorial
- Ops Guide
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Target Group APIs
- CreateTargetGroup
- DeleteTargetGroups
- DescribeTargetGroups
- DescribeTargetGroupList
- ModifyTargetGroupAttribute
- AssociateTargetGroups
- DisassociateTargetGroups
- RegisterTargetGroupInstances
- DeregisterTargetGroupInstances
- DescribeTargetGroupInstances
- ModifyTargetGroupInstancesWeight
- DescribeTargetGroupInstanceStatus
- GWLB APIs
- Other APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Service Level Agreement
- GWLB Policy
- Contact Us
- Glossary
- Release Notes and Announcements
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Quick Start
- Operation Guide
- Practical Tutorial
- Ops Guide
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Target Group APIs
- CreateTargetGroup
- DeleteTargetGroups
- DescribeTargetGroups
- DescribeTargetGroupList
- ModifyTargetGroupAttribute
- AssociateTargetGroups
- DisassociateTargetGroups
- RegisterTargetGroupInstances
- DeregisterTargetGroupInstances
- DescribeTargetGroupInstances
- ModifyTargetGroupInstancesWeight
- DescribeTargetGroupInstanceStatus
- GWLB APIs
- Other APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Service Level Agreement
- GWLB Policy
- Contact Us
- Glossary
Tencent Cloud Load Balancer has two types: Cloud Load Balancer (CLB) and Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB).
They are applicable to different scenarios. It is recommended to choose one based on your business scenario by considering various aspects such as product features and performance. The detailed comparison of the two types is as follows:
Product Features | GWLB | CLB (Application Load Balancer) |
Network Type | No distinction | Public network Private Network |
Instance Specifications | No distinction | |
Listening protocol | IP | Layer-4 forwarding (TCP/UDP) Encrypted layer-4 forwarding (TCP SSL/QUIC) Layer-7 forwarding (HTTP/HTTPS) |
Real server type | Target group | Target group Standard RS |
Session persistence | Not supported. | ✓ |
Balancing algorithm | Elastic hash | Weighted round robin Weighted least connections Source hashing algorithm |
Health check | ✓ | ✓ |
Monitoring/Alarms | ✓ | ✓ |
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