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Azure Load Balancing Masterclass

Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager and Front Door — what each one does, and exactly when to use it.

Most Azure architecture mistakes are not exotic. They come from picking the wrong load balancer. Azure gives you four different services that all "balance load", and choosing the wrong one means either paying for capabil…

New📅 Updated August 2026
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Venkat Kurela
KCA Certified Trainer
🌐 English⏱ 45m content📚 18 lessons🏆 Certificate♾ Lifetime📱 All devicesBeginner
Azure Load Balancing Masterclass
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This course includes
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45m of on-demand video
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18 lessons across sections
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NASSCOM-aligned certificate
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What you'll learn

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Explain why a single-server architecture fails, and what high availability actually requires
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Describe how a load balancer distributes traffic and uses health probes to route around failures
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Explain what Azure Load Balancer does at Layer 4, including its real benefits and its limits
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Tell apart Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager and Front Door
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Categorise any Azure load balancing service as global vs regional and Layer 4 vs Layer 7
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Apply a decision tree to pick the right service for a given workload
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Course Curriculum

5 sections · 18 lessons · 45m total

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1. Course Overview
1 lessons
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Introduction to the Course▶ PREVIEW2m
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2. Why Load Balancing Matters
5 lessons
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3. Azure Load Balancer Explained
3 lessons
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4. Choosing the Right Azure Service
8 lessons
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5. Next Steps
1 lessons
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Quizzes & Exams
3 checkpoint quizzes as you go, plus a final exam of 15 questions. 30 questions in total, included with the course.
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Requirements

Basic familiarity with cloud computing concepts such as virtual machines and regions
No prior Azure networking experience needed — the concepts are built up from first principles
No Azure subscription required: this is a concepts and decision-making course, not a hands-on lab course
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Venkat Kurela
Course Instructor · KCA Expert Trainer
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Course Details
🏷 CategoryCLOUD_INFRASTRUCTURE
📊 LevelBeginner
🌐 LanguageEnglish
⚡ AccessFree forever
📅 UpdatedAugust 2026
⏱ Duration45m total
📜 Certificate✓ Included
Tags
AzureLoad BalancingApplication GatewayTraffic ManagerAzure Front DoorHigh AvailabilityCloud Architecture
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