A technician is configuring a load balancer for the application team to accelerate the network performance of their applications. The applications are hosted on multiple servers and must be…

Round-robin distributes requests sequentially to each server without considering server load, geographic proximity, or network latency, which does not guarantee accelerated network performance.

Weighted load balancing distributes requests based on a pre-configured weight for each server, which helps manage different server capacities but does not inherently optimize for network proximity or latency.

Least connection directs new requests to the server with the fewest active connections to balance server load, but it does not prioritize network proximity or latency for performance acceleration.

Locality-based load balancing (also known as geographic or proximity-based) routes client requests to the server instance that is geographically closest or has the lowest network latency. This method directly accelerates network performance by minimizing the distance and time data travels, thus improving response times for users.