Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing has many advantages over traditional computing like scalability, elasticity, accessibility. Due to these advantages, it has gained popularity in the Information Technology industry. The popularity of cloud computing has forced all organizations (including Micro Small and Medium Enterprises) to move their businesses from traditional computing to cloud computing. This transition has increased cloud-based services worldwide. The worldwide cloud market is set to surpass $330 billion USD in the year 2020 and is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.5% from 2020 to 2025. The growth in cloud adoption has resulted in a high surge of network traffic. Failure to handle this enormous traffic may result in reduced system performance, inefficient resource utilization, server outage. One of the solutions for these problems is cloud load balancers. The cloud load balancers improve system performance by distributing load among all available resources. newline