ALB/ELB Insights

What is ALB/ELB?

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a load balancing service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a type of ELB that is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic. ALBs operate at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model) and provide advanced routing capabilities such as content-based routing, host-based routing, and path-based routing. They are commonly used to distribute web traffic across multiple servers to improve application availability, scalability, and security.

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What other technologies are related to ALB/ELB?

ALB/ELB Competitor Technologies

API Gateway

API Gateway can also be used to route and manage traffic to backend services, providing an alternative to ALB/ELB for certain use cases, specifically for managing APIs.

mentioned alongside ALB/ELB in 0% (102) of relevant job posts

Nginx

Nginx can be used as a reverse proxy and load balancer, providing similar functionality to ALB/ELB.

mentioned alongside ALB/ELB in 0% (53) of relevant job posts

ALB/ELB Complementary Technologies

Transit Gateway

Transit Gateway connects multiple VPCs and on-premises networks, and can be used in conjunction with ALB/ELB to route traffic across different networks.

mentioned alongside ALB/ELB in 2% (56) of relevant job posts

VPC

ALB/ELB operates within a VPC, providing load balancing for resources within that VPC.

mentioned alongside ALB/ELB in 0% (179) of relevant job posts

AWS Route 53

Route 53 is a DNS service that can be used to direct traffic to ALB/ELB.

mentioned alongside ALB/ELB in 1% (76) of relevant job posts