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--- 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 # Customer intent: As an IT administrator, I want to create a load balancer that load balances incoming internet traffic to virtual machines within a specific zone in a region. --- # Tutorial: Load balance VMs within an availability zone by using the Azure portal This tutorial creates a public [load balancer](https://aka.ms/azureloadbalancerstandard) with a zonal IP. In the tutorial, you specify a zone for your frontend and backend instances. In this tutorial, you learn how to: > [!div class="checklist"] > * 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](load-balancer-standard-availability-zones.md). ## Prerequisites * An Azure subscription ## Sign in to Azure Sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com). [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-create-bastion](../../includes/load-balancer-create-bastion.md)] [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-nat-gateway-subnet-add](../../includes/load-balancer-nat-gateway-subnet-add.md)] [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-public-create](../../includes/load-balancer-public-create.md)] [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-create-virtual-machine-zonal](../../includes/load-balancer-create-virtual-machine-zonal.md)] [!INCLUDE [ephemeral-ip-note.md](~/reusable-content/ce-skilling/azure/includes/ephemeral-ip-note.md)] [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-install-iis](../../includes/load-balancer-install-iis.md)] [!INCLUDE [load-balancer-cleanup-resources](../../includes/load-balancer-cleanup-resources.md)] ## Next steps Advance to the next article to learn how to load balance VMs across availability zones: > [!div class="nextstepaction"] > [Load balance VMs across availability zones](./quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal.md)