Introducing Global Load Balancer: Optimize Your Global HTTP Traffic with Simplicity and Scale

Starting today, DigitalOcean’s Global HTTP Load Balancer (GLB) is generally available for all customers. Whether you’re scaling a rapidly growing business or optimizing an existing application, the GLB offers a streamlined solution to improve application availability, enhance resiliency, and reduce latency for your users, no matter where they are.

As digital businesses scale, they need high availability, seamless traffic failover, and enhanced resilience across global deployments. However, traditional global load balancing solutions can be complex, costly, and over-engineered for growing businesses. DigitalOcean bridges this gap by offering a simple, cost-effective GLB designed to meet the core needs of businesses while maintaining ease of use.

Key benefits of DigitalOcean’s Global Load Balancer

Optimize traffic distribution for faster response times

With GLB, HTTP/s traffic is distributed across globally deployed Droplets, helping to ensure that user requests are routed to the region closer to the end user. This reduces latency and accelerates the delivery of web applications, supporting a seamless experience for users worldwide.

Support for Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters (Beta)

For users running DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters, GLB effortlessly integrates via regional Load Balancers (LBaaS), routing traffic based on proximity to your end users. This helps minimize latency while maintaining global availability.

Built-in multi-region failover

In the event of a data center outage or server failure, GLB automatically reroutes traffic to healthy servers in other regions. This dynamic failover capability helps ensure business continuity and minimizes disruption.

Autoscaling for demand spikes

As traffic surges, GLB scales dynamically to handle increased load, without the need for manual intervention. Your infrastructure remains responsive to user demands, providing performance stability during peak times.

Enhanced performance with edge caching

GLB includes edge caching, which accelerates the delivery of static assets for globally distributed users, improving website load times and helping to ensure a consistent experience, regardless of location.

Advanced traffic control

You can set traffic distribution priorities based on your application’s architecture. Choose active/active or active/passive configurations to optimize performance, and decide how requests should be routed between data centers.

Enhanced security

GLB provides built-in DDoS protection, helping to safeguard your applications from malicious traffic and supporting compliance with industry security standards.

Simplicity at its core

With DigitalOcean’s GLB, setup is simple. In just a few steps, you can provision a global HTTP load balancer, connect your domain, and define Droplets or regional LBaaS as backend targets. Start distributing your traffic across globally distributed workloads with ease.

Pricing that scales with your business

DigitalOcean’s Global Load Balancer offers transparent and predictable pricing. At $15 per month, the base plan includes 1 TB of CDN data transfer, 25 million GLB requests, and supports 5 domains, with affordable overage options as your needs grow at $0.02 per GB of CDN data transfer, $0.14 per additional domain, $0.7 per Million GLB requests, you can focus on scaling your application without the worry of unpredictable costs. Follow this pricing documentation for more information.

Get started today

Start using DigitalOcean’s Global Load Balancer today and take advantage of enhanced global resiliency, faster performance, and built-in security, all at a price that fits your budget. Visit our product documentation for a step-by-step guide or reach out to our sales team for migration support and architecture reviews.