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Ahmed Shendy
Ahmed Shendy

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How to choose the right load balancer for your AWS workloads

Before talking about how to choose the right load balancer, let's take a look about what are the available load balancers in AWS.

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When do we need to use the Application LB?

When we have one of the below targets combined with one or more from the below requirements.

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When do we need to use the Network LB?

When we have one of the below targets combined with one or more from the below requirements.

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When do we need to use the Gateway LB?

When we have one of the below targets combined with one or more from the below requirements.

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When do we need to use the AWS Global Accelerator?

When we have one of the below targets combined with one or more from the below requirements.

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To get more details on how to select the LB got to this session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0YZBF03r5A

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Sherry Day

Nice post