

The load balancer distributes incoming internet requests to the VM instances. There's a single public IP address, and internet traffic is distributed to the virtual machine through a load balancer. In this architecture, a workload is distributed across multiple virtual machine instances. This architecture can be used for any stateless workload, such as a web server. This reference architecture shows a set of proven practices for running multiple Windows virtual machines in a scale set behind a load balancer, to improve availability and scalability. Virtual machine (Windows/Linux) workloads Application running on load-balanced virtual machines Protected resources that include public IPs created from public IP address prefix are not supported at present.
