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AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)¶
Definition¶
AWS Application Load Balancer is the L7 (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancer offering in the AWS Elastic Load Balancing family. It performs TLS termination (typically with an ACM-issued cert), HTTP/2 upgrade, content-based routing (path, host, header, query), and forwards to target groups that can be EC2 instances, IP addresses, Lambda functions, or ECS tasks.
Seen in¶
- sources/2020-06-30-zalando-launching-the-engineering-blog — ALB sits in front of Skipper in Zalando's Kubernetes stack; the ALB + ACM cert + listener rules are provisioned automatically by the Kubernetes Ingress Controller for AWS whenever an Ingress is applied.
Comparable systems¶
- AWS Network Load Balancer — L4, higher throughput, lower per-connection overhead, used when you don't need HTTP-level routing.
- Classic ELB — legacy, deprecated for new deployments.