Learning AWS - DVA - Day 7: Network Load Balancer

Overview

• Network Load Balancers is Layer 4 (OSI Model), allow to:

  • Forward TCP and UDP traffic to your instances
  • Handle milions of request per seconds
  • Ultra-low latency

• Network Load Balancer has one static IP per AZ, and supports assigning Elastic IP (helpful for whitelist specific IP)

• NLB are used for extreme performance, TCP or UDP traffic

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Target Groups

• EC2 Instances

• IP Addresses - must be private IPs

• Application Load Balancer

Health Check support the TCP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols