Embodiments of the present application relate to a service packet distribution method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a service packet processing node located in a cloud gateway, a session request signal sent by a peer device of the cloud gateway; establishing a user bearer according to the session request signal and allocating a user bearer index used to identify the user bearer, where the user bearer index includes a location index value, the location index value is used to indicate a location of the service packet processing node in a location table of a packet distribution node located in the cloud gateway, and the location table includes a correspondence between a location index value and an identifier of a service packet processing node; and sending a session response signal to the peer device, where the session response signal includes the user bearer index.