Load Balancing with Weighted Pools
Aug 2, 2022Brian Batraski, Ben Ritter

Summary
Introduced Weighted Pools as a feature for Cloudflare Load Balancer, allowing customers to assign relative weights to origin pools. This extends the 'Random' traffic steering policy to distribute requests based on these weights. The feature supports scenarios such as balancing traffic across unequally sized origin pools, acting as a kill switch for data centers by setting weights to 0, and enabling network A/B testing by directing a small percentage of traffic to new pools. Configuration is available via the Dashboard and API.
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