At the time of writing this book, there are three different variants of the AWS ELB that you can select and configure. Understanding the differences between them will help you select the correct ELB for your needs. They are as follows:
- Application Load Balancer: This is typically used to support the incoming traffic destined for your web applications when running the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. It offers a number of advanced features, such as TLS termination and advanced routing options, allowing you to route incoming requests to different ports on the same host.
- Network Load Balancer: If low latency and high performance are key to your application architectures, then you might want to select a Network Load Balancer, which can easily support millions of incoming requests per second.
- Classic Load Balancer: This was the original AWS ELB; however, this has now been superseded by the previous two ELBs, in particular the Application Load Balancer, and AWS recommends that...
