February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 51m
English
AWS supports three types of elastic load balancers (ELBs), namely, application load balancer, network load balancer, and classic load balancer. When we need a flexible set of features at the application layer, it is recommended to use the application load balancer. The application load balancer only supports HTTP or HTTPS protocols. Therefore, when using other protocols, such as TCP, and for TLS termination at the EC2 instance, we should use a network load balancer, even if a classic load balancer can be used. Also, when extreme performance is required, it is recommended to use a network load balancer.
Let's quickly go through some more important concepts related to classic load balancers:
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