Oracle's service for distributing traffic across multiple compute instances. Like having a traffic director that ensures no single server gets overwhelmed.
E-commerce sites use OCI Load Balancer to distribute customer traffic across multiple servers during peak shopping periods.
All are managed load balancing services that distribute incoming traffic across multiple backends for high availability and scalability. OCI Load Balancer is Oracle’s managed option; AWS splits common use cases across ALB (HTTP/HTTPS) and NLB (TCP/UDP), Azure commonly uses Application Gateway for L7 and Azure Load Balancer for L4, and GCP Cloud Load Balancing supports global and regional load balancing depending on the product tier.