AWS

What types of AWS load balancers are there?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Classic Load Balancer (CLB): Mainly for TCP (layer 4) and HTTP, HTTPS (layer 7)
  • Application Load Balancer (ALB): Mainly for HTTP, HTTPS and WebSocket
  • Network Load Balancer (NLB): Mainly for TCP, TLS and UDP
  • Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB): Mainly for layer 3 operations (IP protocol)