Application load balancers work at the request layer (application layer of the OSI model) and are used for HTTP and HTTPS requests. Application load balancers provide advanced routing capabilities at the application layer for requesting and path parameter-based routing. Architecture patterns such as the microservices architecture can make use of application load balancers to route requests to different web servers while making use of request parameters.
Using an application load balancer with TLS termination at the ELB
Getting ready
We need to create a target group to complete this recipe. We can do this by following the Creating ELB target groups recipe of this chapter and adding two EC2 instances that have Apache web server...
