Load Balancing
26 Release Notes
New Web Application Firewall capability to include Request ID in responses
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Web Application Firewall (WAF) lets you configure a firewall to include the request ID ...
OCI WAF protection on Flexible Load Balancers
This update of Web Application Firewall (WAF) allows you to directly apply and enforce OCI WAF protection on your Flexible ...
Load Balancer Routing Policies
Routing Policies are now available for Load Balancers.
Request routing policies allow you to route ingress traffic requests based ...
Flexible Load Balancing
Flexible Shapes allows you to specify minimum and maximum values to create an upper and lower size range for the ...
Bring Your Own IP is now available
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now allows you to Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) address space to use with Load Balancer. BYOIP ...
Dynamic Maximum Bandwidth Shapes are now available
You can adjust the size of the load balancer's bandwidth to one of the other predefined sizes if you are ...
Logging is now available
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging service is a highly scalable and fully managed single pane of glass for all the logs ...
Cipher Suites and TLS 1.0/1.1 Support is now available
You can configure collections of ciphers, known as cipher suites, as part of your load balancer configuration. Support for ...
Limited availability (LA) of IPv6 addressing in all commercial regions
Beginning today, if you are in commercial regions you can now optionally configure dual stack IPv4/IPv6 in your tenancy to ...
URL Redirect
You can configure URL redirect rules that specify how to route incoming HTTP requests to a different destination URL. See ...
Always Free resources available as part of the Free Tier
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Free Tier now includes a set of Always Free resources that allow you to explore Oracle's cloud ...
IPv6: Government Cloud only
IPv6 addressing is now supported in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Government Cloud only. For more information, see these topics:
...New load balancer traffic control features
The Load Balancing service now offers the following traffic control features:
- Access control rules: Permit access to application ...
Network security groups
You can now create network security groups (NSGs), which are another method besides security lists for implementing security rules in your virtual cloud network (VCN).
Improved load balancer creation workflow
The Load Balancing service now features a more intuitive load balancer creation workflow. Creation and editing tasks for load balancer resources have been improved, as well.
Attach load balancers to instance pools
You can now associate a load balancer with an instance pool. If you do this, when you add an instance ...
Regional subnets
You can now create regional subnets, which are not specific to a particular availability domain, but span all availability domains in the region.
Rule Sets for Load Balancer Listeners
You now can create rule sets composed of actions to apply to requests or responses at the load balancer listener. ...
Tags for Load Balancers
You can now apply tags to Load Balancers. See Overview of Tags.
Multiple Virtual Hostnames
Allow multiple virtual hostnames assigned to a single listener.
Virtual hostname and path routing support
You can now manage your load balancer's request routing with virtual hostnames and path route sets.
Connection configuration timeout setting
You can now specify the maximum idle time in seconds when you create a listener.
Health Status API
Private load balancers
Session persistence
Load Balancing Service
The new Load Balancing Service is now available. You can buy the service at the Oracle Store.