How to create a Load Balancer

Reviewed on October 16, 2025

Load Balancers are highly available and fully-managed Instances which allow you to distribute your workload across your various servers. They ensure the scaling of all your applications while securing their continuous availability, even in the event of heavy traffic. Load Balancers are commonly used to improve the performance and reliability of websites, applications, databases, and other services.

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

• A Scaleway account logged into the console
• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization

How to create a Load Balancer

1. Click Load Balancers in the Network section of the Scaleway console side menu. If you have not already created a Load Balancer, the product creation page is displayed.

2. Click Create Load Balancer or the plus icon button. The creation wizard displays.

3. Choose the Availability Zone in which your Load Balancer will be deployed geographically.

4. Select a Load Balancer type, according to your needs in terms of bandwidth and whether you want to be able to attach backend servers from other cloud providers than Scaleway (Multi-cloud provider).

5. Set up public connectivity to access your Load Balancer from the internet.

   • A public IPv4 address is obligatory. You can either allocate a new IPv4 address, or select one of your existing flexible IPv4 addresses.
   • You can optionally add a public IPv6 address in addition to the IPv4 address. You can either allocate a new IPv6 address, or select one of your existing flexible IPv6 addresses.
   Note

   If you require public connectivity, you must enable it during Load Balancer creation as it cannot be added afterward. You can set up private connectivity by attaching a Private Network to your Load Balancer after its creation.

6. Enter a name for your Load Balancer. Optionally, you can also add a description and assign tags to help organize your Load Balancers.

7. Click Create Load Balancer to finish. A confirmation pop-up displays.

8. Click Configure now to set up a frontend, a backend, traffic management, and health checks for your Load Balancer, or do it at a later time.