Looking for help with Outbound Loadbalancer or API Proxy

Lee Brown 1 Reputation point
2022-12-01T00:07:43.53+00:00

Hi Folks,

Looking for the best, most cost effective way, to round robin outbound requests to a Public weighted API from my VM. We have around 2000 users. I looked in to a load balance service, however, I am wondering if it's better to use an API proxy?

Any help with this is appreciated.

Cheers,
Lee

Azure API Management
Azure API Management
An Azure service that provides a hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs.
1,750 questions
0 comments

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Mike Urnun 9,666 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-12-06T06:48:28.693+00:00

    Hello @Lee Brown - Thanks for reaching out!

    I can't speak to the cost-effectiveness part since there are many factors to take into consideration to be sure that one option is going to be less expensive than the other, or vice-versa. In order to use APIM in front of your VMs and round-robin the calls to them, they'll need to have their own, unique URLs so they can be added as different backends -- can that be the case with your current setup?

    If you're going to be needing other load-balancing features beyond round-robin-ing, it's probably best to stick with Application Gateway: Choosing a gateway technology

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Please consider contributing to MS Q&A by marking 'Accepted Answer' and ‘Upvoting’ as applicable.

    0 comments