Application Load Balancer vs. Network Load Balancer – Amazon EC2 Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com

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[Instructor] Now that we’ve understood how to configure the Application and the Network Load Balancer, let’s talk about the common features and the differences between both these load balancers. The goal here is to understand the use cases for each of the load balancer. AWS does not recommend using the Classic Load Balancer, instead, it recommends using one of these next-generation load balancers, Application or Network Load Balancer. Let’s start by talking about the common features. Both the load balancers support health checks, they can be configured to check the health of the target, and if the target is found to be unhealthy, requests are not routed to that instance. Health checks can be configured on the traffic port, or we can specify another port as well. HTTP health checks allow you to configure a file name while TCP health checks, will check if the port is open or not. Both the load balancers support logging,…