# S3 cluster management

## Considerations

The S3 service can be exposed from the cluster hosts, ranging from three hosts to the entire cluster. The service performance scales linearly as the S3 cluster scales.

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## Round-robin DNS or load balancer

To ensure that the various S3 clients balance the load on the different Weka hosts serving S3, configuring a *Round-robin DNS* entry is recommended. The round-robin DNS resolves the list of hosts' IPs and equally distributes the clients' loads across all hosts.

A DNS server that supports health checks can help with resiliency if any hosts serving S3 become unresponsive.

Even a robust DNS server or load-balancer may become overloaded with an extreme load. You can also use a client-side load balancer, where each client checks the health of each S3 host in the cluster. One such load balancer is the open-source *Sidekick Load Balancer*.

**Related information**

[Round-robin DNS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS) 

[Sidekick Load Balancer](https://github.com/minio/sidekick)

**Related topics**

[Manage the S3 service using the GUI](/4.0/additional-protocols/s3/s3-cluster-management/s3-cluster-management.md)

[Manage the S3 service using the CLI](/4.0/additional-protocols/s3/s3-cluster-management/s3-cluster-management-1.md)


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