How is 'Inbound NAT rules' different from 'Load Balancing Rules' different from each other in Azure Load Balancer v2

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Ajov Crowe picture Ajov Crowe · Apr 1, 2016 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

Can someone explain to me what actually happens in the back-end to the load balancer (v2) for the two scenarios:

  1. Applying Inbound NAT rules.

  2. Applying Load Balancing Rules.

Answer

Ratish picture Ratish · Oct 16, 2017

You would use NAT rule when you have 1 backend server or you know which backend server to get to and loadbalancing rule when you want to loadbalance to multiple backend servers.

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