Cloud Load Balancing: Global External Passthrough Network Load Balancer Preview
Google Cloud Load Balancing has released a preview of its global external passthrough Network Load Balancer, the global variant of the regional offering. This new load balancer is designed for high-traffic, low-latency use cases like Adtech and real-time communications by distributing traffic across multiple regions using Google's global anycast network. It supports various traffic types and IP versions but currently does not support GKE backends.
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- Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing introduces a new version of the Network Load Balancer—the global external passthrough Network Load Balancer, which is the global variant of the regional external passthrough Network Load Balancer. The load balancer is available in Preview . This load balancer variant solves use cases for Security Service Edge (SSE), DNS hosting, Adtech (real-time bidding), real-time communications (RTC), live streaming, and online gaming, among others. Global external passthrough Network Load Balancers are Layer 4 passthrough load balancers that distribute external traffic among backends (
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#July_31_2026
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