Traffic steering

When requests come to your load balancer, it distributes them across your pools and endpoints according to three factors:

1. Pool and endpoint health: Traffic decisions start with which pools and endpoints are available and should receive traffic.
2. Global traffic steering: Policies set on your load balancer that route traffic to attached and available pools.
3. Local traffic steering: These are policies set on each pool that route traffic to available endpoints within the pool.

When a pool or endpoint becomes unhealthy, your load balancer and pools redistribute traffic according to these same policies.