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.

Ram
February 19, 2022
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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.

Ram

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