NETWORKING
Application Load Balancer
Layer 7 load balancer for HTTP and HTTPS content-based routing to targets.
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What job does it solve?
Host, path, header, or other HTTP-aware routing is required.
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Where does it stop?
You need static IPs, extreme Layer 4 performance, UDP, or transparent appliances.
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Lessons that mention it
- Lesson 02Scale the work without losing the state
- Lesson 06Trace a request through a VPC
- Lesson 08Protect an application in layers
- Lesson 11Protect every encrypted connection—and plan renewal
- Lesson 18Choose the right front door—and cache only safe data
- Lesson 25Remove one Availability Zone—what still works?
- Lesson 30Interactive scalable VPC topology and load balancing
- Lesson 39Compute rightsizing, scaling, availability, and load-balancer economics
- Lesson 43Interactive network flow, edge delivery, and transfer-cost tracing
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