Types of AWS Load Balancers
Learn about the different types of load balancers AWS offers.
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All load balancers on AWS are called Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs). Let’s go through them briefly.
The Classic Load Balancer (CLB) is AWS’s first and oldest load balancing offering. It’s also deprecated and shouldn’t be used for new applications anymore. It’s the only load balancer that supports EC2-Classic networking.
The Classic Load Balancer offers layer 4 and layer 7 load balancing, but AWS recommends the network load balancer to replace classic load balancers for layer 4 applications and the application load balancer for layer 7 applications.
Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer (NLB) replaces the ...