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078 Network Load Balancer

  • Forward TCP & UDP traffic to your instances
  • Handle millions of request per seconds
  • Ultra-low latency
  • NLB has one static IP per AZ and supports Elastic IP
  • NLB is for extreme performance

NLB

Backend may use HTTP but front should use TCP/UDP

Target Groups

  • EC2 instances
  • IP addresses (only private IP)
  • Application load balancer
  • Health check protocol: TCP, HTTP, HTTPS