Application Load Balancer (ALB)

wikipedia:Application Load Balanceroperates at the request level (layer 7), routing traffic to targets (EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions) based on the content of the request.

• ALB prices start at $17/month without considering additional cost per traffic
• Quotas: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-limits.html

News

• Nov 2019 Application Load Balancer now supports Least Outstanding Requests algorithm for load balancing requests

Related terms

• AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB): AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer, aws_lb (Terraform)
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• OSI model: Layer 7
• Load balancer (Networking)
• URL redirection
• AWS Global Accelerator
• ALB metrics
• Terraform module: alb-ingress-controller
• K8s ingresClassName
• Static IP address
• Websockets
• kubernetes.io/ingress.class
• alb.ingress.kubernetes.io
• X-Forwarded-For

See also

• AWS ALB, AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2 [aws elbv2 | create-load-balancer | describe-load-balancers | create-target-group | describe-target-groups | describe-target-health | create-rule | register-targets | describe-account-limits ], alb-http-drop-invalid-header-enabled
• AWS networking: AWS CloudFront, ELB, ALB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Route 53, AWS PrivateLink, EIP, AWS VPN, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Network Firewall, AWS Network Load Balancer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty, AWS Direct Connect

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/application-load-balancer/