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# Load Balancers Availability

Generated on 31 Mar 2026

DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of backend resources in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a service from depending on the health of a single server, cluster, or region.

| Load Balancers | NYC1 | NYC2 | NYC3 | AMS3 | SFO2 | SFO3 | SGP1 | LON1 | FRA1 | TOR1 | BLR1 | SYD1 | ATL1 | RIC1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regional | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Global | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |

Droplets in a regional load balancer’s backend pool must be in the same region as the load balancer.

Learn more on the [regional availability page](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/index.html.md).