AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)

wikipedia:AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) (Aug 2016)

• https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/application-load-balancer/
• Costs: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

Features

• Native support for WebSockets and HTTP/2

Changelog

• May 2018 Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-in Authentication
• Oct 2017 SNI https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-application-load-balancer-sni/, you can bind up to 25 certificates per load balancer (not counting the default certificate)
• Apr 2017 Host-Based routing support https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-host-based-routing-support-for-aws-application-load-balancers/
• Aug 2016 ALB announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/announcing-application-load-balancer-for-elastic-load-balancing/

Activities

• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-application-load-balancer?tab=Votes
• Activate access logs
• kubectl get ingress

Related terms

• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): AWS Network Load Balancer
• EKS: AWS Load Balancer Controller
• aws_lb resource in Terraform
• List of HTTP status codes: 5XX

See also

• Terraform LB: aws_lb: drop_invalid_header_fields
• AWS ALB, AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2 [aws elbv2 | create-load-balancer | describe-load-balancers | create-target-group | describe-target-groups | describe-target-health | create-rule | register-targets | describe-account-limits ], alb-http-drop-invalid-header-enabled
• AWS ALB, Target Group, SNI
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer: ALB (Target group), Classic

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/announcing-application-load-balancer-for-elastic-load-balancing/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-listeners.html

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/built-in-authentication-in-alb/