You're reading from AWS for Solutions Architects The definitive guide to AWS Solutions Architecture for migrating to, building, scaling, and succeeding in the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238951

Length 692 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Neelanjali Srivastav

Saurabh Shrivastava

Alberto Artasanchez

Imtiaz Sayed

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

AWS for Solutions Architects, Second Edition: Design your cloud infrastructure by implementing DevOps, containers, and Amazon Web Services

1 Understanding AWS Principles and Key Characteristics FREE CHAPTER

2 Understanding AWS Well-Architected Framework and Getting Certified

3 Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

4 Networking in AWS

5 Storage in AWS – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

6 Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

7 Selecting the Right Database Service

8 Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance

9 Dive efficiency with Cloud Operation Automation and DevOps in AWS

10 Bigdata and streaming data processing in AWS

11 Datawarehouse, Data Query and Visualization in AWS

12 Machine Learning, IoT, and Blockchain in AWS

13 Containers in AWS

14 Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

15 Domain-Driven Design

16 Data Lake Patterns – Integrating Your Data across the Enterprise

17 Availability, Reliability, and Scalability Patterns

18 AWS Hands-On Lab and Use Case

CLB versus ALB versus NLB comparison

The following diagram illustrates the differences between the three types of ELBs. This will help in our discussion to decide which load balancer is best for your use case:

As a general rule of thumb, it usually is better not to use a CLB on a new project and only use it in legacy applications built when CLBs were the only option.

CLB and ALB commonalities

Even though there are differences, CLBs and ALBs still have many features in common. Both support all these features:

Security Groups – Leveraging a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) architecture, a security group can be mapped with AWS services, including EC2 instances and ELBs, providing extra security to the overall architecture.
SSL termination – Terminating the SSL connection at the ELB level offloads the processing of SSL traffic from the backend instances to the ELB. This removes load from the backend...