Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a highly available, scalable, and fully managed Application Load Balancer (ALB) service. This load balancer operates at the request level (layer 7 in the OSI model), routing traffic to one of the registered targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses, based on the rules that you define. One of the key benefits of using an ALB is its ability to handle advanced request routing, such as routing based on the content of the request, allowing you to build sophisticated traffic management policies for your applications. For example, you can set up an ALB to route traffic to different target groups based on the URL path of the incoming request, the host header, or even the query string parameters. In addition to request routing, ALBs also provide features such as automatic scaling, TLS/SSL offloading, and integration with other AWS services, such as Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate. Another advantage of using an ALB is its ability to heal...
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