Data center services provider Rackspace has launched its cloud-based load-balancing services in the UK about three months after launching the offering in the US market.

There are two most common use scenarios for load balancers: rapid cloud capacity growth and building availability into cloud-based applications. The offering can be seamlessly integrate with cloud servers, as well as dedicated servers.

Rackspace said its cloud load balancers enable customers to build robust high-availability cloud configurations quickly and easily. In the rapid-growth use scenario, load balancers can be used to balance traffic across two or more cloud servers to ensure there is enough capacity to handle a demand jump.

Josh Odom, product line leader of platform for Rackspace