Overview#

AWS Application Load Balancer is a Amazon Web Services for Application Load Balancing

AWS Application Load Balancer operates at the OSI-Model Application Layer

AWS Application Load Balancer has the following Features:

• Path and Host Based Routing
• IPv6 support
• AWS Web Application Firewall integration
• Dynamic Ports
• Metrics
• Health-checks
• Access Logging
• Protocols
  • HTTP
  • HTTP2
  • WebSockets

AWS Application Load Balancer is a Fault tolerance component.

AWS Application Load Balancer Use cases

• Containers to host Web

Category#

Amazon Web Services

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• AWS Shield
• AWS Web Application Firewall
• Amazon Web Services

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• [#1] - What Is an Application Load Balancer? - based on information obtained 2019-07-02