NodeBalancers now help a seamless Cloud Firewall integration, making it simpler than ever to securely scale your utility with Akamai cloud computing companies. 

As visitors and/or the person base grows for an utility, builders and infrastructure engineers distribute the load amongst a number of compute situations to take care of efficiency and excessive availability. That is finished with our NodeBalancer service, a managed load balancer digital machine that operates as a layer 4-7 proxy to distribute visitors to pick out wholesome backend nodes in the identical core compute area.

With the brand new integration, you’ll be able to arrange a free Cloud Firewall with customized inbound visitors guidelines and fasten to your NodeBalancer so it each filters and distributes allowed incoming visitors to your utility’s compute situations. Filtering on the load balancer stage creates one other layer of safety in your utility, making certain malicious visitors is straight away blocked from reaching backend nodes.

How It Works

Configure your Cloud Firewall utilizing Cloud Supervisor or the API. This can be a free service that helps as much as 25 customized firewall guidelines to dam or permit inbound visitors from designated IP addresses or IP ranges, together with specified ports. Configure guidelines for SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, MySQL, and DNS visitors and specify the visitors protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IPENCAP).

You’ll be able to simply add a NodeBalancer and corresponding Cloud Firewall on the similar time or asynchronously.

It’s also possible to modify or delete Cloud Firewall guidelines as wanted to shortly reply to altering visitors patterns.

Get began now or browse up to date Cloud Firewall and NodeBalancer documentation.

Coming Quickly: Beta for World Load Balancer

We’re enhancing our load balancing resolution to distribute visitors between digital machines in a couple of core compute area! World Load Balancer is a multi-region and multicloud-friendly load balancer that distributes each East-West and North-South visitors between wholesome compute situations.

Register for the upcoming beta in Cloud Supervisor or through the API. In case you’re Concerned with testing the World Load Balancer however don’t have an account, create your account now and obtain $100 in free credit score to discover the platform whilst you wait.