- Elastic Load Balancing is an AWS service that ensures that load is distributed across a set of running instances
- AWS offers three types of Load Balancing which run at different levels:
- Application Load Balancer (ALB) – for web applications, runs at HTTP/HTTPS protocols
- Network Load Balancer (NLB) – for network level load balancing, runs at TCP/TLS/UDP protocols
- Classic Load Balancer (CLB) – a previous generation LB for existing EC2 instances running in classic network
- Since Load Balancer environments don’t guarantee that the same instance executes a same request twice, session management can sometimes be an issue
- If we wants to persist user sessions and route a user request to a particular instance under the ALB all the time, we need to enable Sticky Sessions on the ALB.
What is Elastic Load Balancing in AWS?
Elastic Load Balancing is an AWS service that ensures that load is distributed across a set of running instances - offered at 3 levels.
