Category: Elastic Load Balancing

Application Load Balancer (ALB) operates at layer-7 of the OSI model and allows you to load balance HTTP and HTTPS requests to its backend targets. In March 2025, we launched ALB and HAQM VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) integration that allows you to use predictable IP address blocks for your internet-facing ALBs. This feature helps […]

In this post, we explore how HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) data transfer costs apply to the communication between Network Load Balancer (NLB), clients, and targets in multiple scenarios, to help you optimize data transfer costs on HAQM Web Services (AWS). For Classic and Application load balancers, visit our post, Exploring Data Transfer Costs […]

Are you interested in securing your web applications and optimizing their performance to maintain a seamless user experience and safeguard against cyber threats? Application Load Balancers (ALBs) provide a powerful feature for modifying request and response headers, allowing you to fine-tune your application’s behavior in numerous ways. From bolstering security with essential headers such as […]

Introduction Today HAQM Web Services (AWS) is enhancing subnet management capabilities of Network Load Balancer (NLB). NLBs were previously restricted to only adding subnets in new Availability Zones (AZs), and they now support full subnet management, including removal of subnets, matching the capabilities of Application Load Balancer (ALB). This enhancement offers organizations greater control over […]

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In today’s world, organizations are increasingly looking to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud to take advantage of scalability, cost-effectiveness, and agility offered by cloud. One critical component of many enterprise architectures is the load balancer, which distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers. If you’re considering migrating your on-premise hardware load balancers to AWS, it’s […]

Today, we’re announcing HAQM Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift support for Application Load Balancers (ALB) with cross-zone load balancing enabled. This complements the support for Network Load Balancers (NLB) using cross-zone load balancing we announced previously. Now you can use zonal shift with both NLBs and ALBs, with or without cross-zone load balancing configured, […]

As organizations continue to roll out cloud-connected Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, the need for accurate and reliable time synchronization has become increasingly critical. Although HAQM Web Services (AWS) provides the HAQM Time Sync Service for basic Network Time Protocol (NTP) needs, some IoT scenarios need a custom NTP solution. For example, users want to serve many IoT […]

This post was co-authored by: Ashish Kumar, Senior Product Manager; Blayze Stefaniak, Senior Solutions Architect; Natti Swaminathan, Senior Solutions Architect; and Yogesh Patel, Senior Solutions Architect In this post, we review how you can leverage AWS PrivateLink support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) services, and accelerate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) migrations with UDP support […]

Update: Sep 10, 2024 – Corrected a CloudWatch metric name. HAQM Web Service (AWS) Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is a managed AWS service that allows you to insert third-party firewall appliances into the data path. GWLB helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party appliances, and it acts as a bump-in-the-wire device and passes traffic transparently […]