Tag: ELB
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Cross Zone Load Balancing always on, right?
Cross Zone Load Balancing is one of the less known and most confusing options of the different load balancers on AWS. Until 2013 the choice was simple, Amazon offered only one load balancer as a service – the Classic Load Balancer – and there was no option to perform Cross Zone Load Balancing. No feature,…
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Using WAF with ELB: CloudFront and request timeouts
To minimize maintenance and increase device support for a web application I would like to have a AWS load balancer (either Classic Load Balancer or Application Load Balancer) supporting IPv6 and taking advantage of WAF as web application firewall. In short, I would like to leverage AWS services for the entire stack, firewall included. Let’s…
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Classic Load Balancer and Application Load Balancer support for IPv6
Going back a bit in time, in 2011 AWS announced support for “Elastic Load Balancing – IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security”. As Jeff Barr wrote at that time: “All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions now have publicly routable IPv6 addresses in addition to their existing IPv4…