title	Tutorial: Load balance VMs within an availability zone - Azure portal
titleSuffix	Azure Load Balancer
description	This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Standard Load Balancer with zonal frontend to load balance VMs within an availability zone by using Azure portal.
services	load-balancer
author	mbender-ms
ms.service	azure-load-balancer
ms.topic	tutorial
ms.date	12/04/2023
ms.author	mbender
ms.custom	template-tutorial

Tutorial: Load balance VMs within an availability zone by using the Azure portal

This tutorial creates a public load balancer with a zonal IP. In the tutorial, you specify a zone for your frontend and backend instances.

In this tutorial, you learn how to:

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Create a virtual network with an Azure Bastion host for management.

Create a NAT gateway for outbound internet access of the resources in the virtual network.

Create a load balancer with a health probe and traffic rules.

Create zonal virtual machines (VMs) and attach them to a load balancer.

Create a basic Internet Information Services (IIS) site.

Test the load balancer.

For more information about availability zones and a standard load balancer, see Standard load balancer and availability zones.