List few Pros/cons of using AWS Elastic Load Balancer?

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Posted On: Jan 26, 2023

 

List of few Pros/Cons of using AWS Elastic Load Balancer.

Pros

  • Can handle the SSL termination, thus offloading the SSL processing from the instances.
  • Provides health checks to ensure that only healthy instances receive traffic.
  • Can be integrated with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and Auto Scaling for automatic scaling of instances.

Cons

  • Additional cost for using the service.
  • May add latency to the requests as they pass through the load balancer.
  • Limited control over the routing algorithm used by the load balancer.
  • Can become a single point of failure if not configured with multiple availability zones.

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