Question

Your team runs a UDP-based gaming service on Compute Engine instances in us-central1. You need a regional external passthrough Network Load Balancer that supports weighted distribution across backends, connection draining during instance removal, and non-legacy health checks. You are choosing the backend architecture for the load balancer. Which configuration meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A backend service-based external passthrough Network Load Balancer using a regional backend service with a managed instance group backend

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A target pool-based external passthrough Network Load Balancer with an HTTP health check attached to the target pool

Answer

A global external Application Load Balancer with a serverless NEG backend

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An internal passthrough Network Load Balancer with a regional backend service and session affinity