Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
Everyone used to refer to the CLB as the ELB. This was due to the fact that, for some years, what we now call the CLB was the only load balancing solution. The CLB is essentially a quite powerful but fairly simple load balancer. The service provides us with a highly available and secure load balancer that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The CLB is able to load balance requests on the connection level as well as perform some basic request-level traffic control, mainly with support for X-Forwarded HTTP headers and sticky sessions. The CLB can also simplify the application configuration and reduce performance overheads by offloading HTTPS traffic at the entry point of connection from our clients. As with any other service ...
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