Question

Can I load balance between regions using the App Platform?

Posted on February 6, 2021
Deployment DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by sebastianbrerup

I know there sit a loadbalancer between the request and my app and I can scale it, but is it possible to have instances living in different regions?

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Jon Friesen

DigitalOcean Employee

• February 6, 2021

Accepted Answer

👋 @sebastianbrerup

Currently a single app cannot span more than one region, however you could deploy your application in each region manually and set a third party global loudbalancer directing traffic to each of the provided ingress URLs.

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• July 10, 2024

Hi there,

A quick update here, DigitalOcean has announced new Global Load Balancers (currently in beta) which will allow you to distribute traffic to Droplets in different regions for high availability (HA) and performance.

Whereas regional load balancers distribute traffic within a single region, global load balancers span multiple regions and route users to your nearest available backend Droplet.

For more information you can check out this documentaiton here: