Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

An AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances and containers.

AWS offers three load balancer types: Application Load Balancer (HTTP/HTTPS, path-based routing, WebSocket), Network Load Balancer (TCP/UDP, ultra-low latency, millions of requests), and Gateway Load Balancer (third-party virtual appliances).

Features include health checks, auto-scaling integration, SSL termination, sticky sessions, cross-zone load balancing, and WAF integration. ALB supports host-based routing (multiple domains on one ALB) and weighted target groups for blue-green deployments.

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