Types of AWS Load Balancers
Explore the key types of AWS Elastic Load Balancers, including Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer, to understand how they distribute traffic and improve scalability. This lesson helps you decide which load balancer type fits your web application's needs and prepares you to implement layer 7 load balancing with AWS CLI for WordPress scalability.
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All load balancers on AWS are called Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs). Let’s go through them briefly.
Classic Load Balancer
The Classic Load Balancer (CLB) is AWS’s first and oldest load balancing offering. It’s also deprecated and shouldn’t be used for new applications anymore. It’s the only load balancer that supports EC2-Classic networking.
The Classic Load Balancer offers layer 4 and layer 7 load balancing, but AWS recommends the network load balancer to replace classic load balancers for layer 4 applications and the application load balancer for layer 7 applications.
Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer (NLB) replaces the ...