Hands-On Azure Labs: Building Redundant Cloud Solutions

Lab Overview

In this lab, you will create a second public Azure Load Balancer (LB-East), mirroring the configuration from LB-West but in the East US region. By deploying load balancers in both regions, you ensure that each set of regional virtual machines can independently handle incoming traffic. This setup forms a key part of your multi-region architecture, reinforcing high availability and consistent performance across geographically dispersed workloads.

Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will be able to:

• • Deploy a Standard Public Load Balancer (LB-East) in the East US region.
  • Create and configure a frontend IP and backend pool for East US virtual machines.
  • Implement health probes to continuously check the availability of VMs.
  • Define load balancing rules for HTTP traffic on port 80, ensuring fault tolerance and efficient request distribution in East US.

Exam Relevance

These load balancing concepts are crucial for:

• • AZ-104 (Azure Administrator): Demonstrates your expertise in setting up and managing scalable network services in Azure.
  • AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect): Reinforces your ability to design multi-region, highly available solutions that use load balancers to optimize performance and reliability.