Aws Series Elb

Aws Series Elb

Post Date : 2023-12-29T17:03:17+07:00

Modified Date : 2023-12-29T17:03:17+07:00

Category: systemdesign aws

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Elastic Load Balancing

  • Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC Instances.

4 Diffrent Types of Load Balancers

  • Application Load Balancer: http/https traffic, operate at layer 7 (Intelligence)
  • Network Load Balancer: operating at connection level (layer 4) on OSI Model (Performance)
  • Gateway Load Balancers: operating at network level (layer 3 on OSI Model) (inline Virtual Appliance Load Balancing)
  • Classic Load Balancers: http/https traffic, use layer 7 specific feature X-Forwarded, sticky session, classic/dev/test

Load Balancer routes request only to the healthy instances

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Application Load Balancers

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  • Limitation of Application Load Balancers: only support http/https

  • You must deploy at least one ssl/tls certificate on your load balancer

  • Listeners: checks for connection request from clients, using the protocol and port you configure

  • Rules: determine how the load balancer routes requests to its registered targets. Each rule consists of a priority , one or more actions/conditions

  • Target Groups: each target group routes requests to one or more registered targets, such us EC2 instances, using protocol and port number you specify

Network Load Balancers

  • Functions at the 4th layer of OIS model. It can handle millions of requests/second, maintain ultra-low latency, for extreme performance.
  • Receives a connection request -> attempt to open a TCP connection to the selected target on the port specified in the listener configuration
  • The listener then forwards the request to the target group. There no rules unlike application load balancers.
  • Target Groups: each target group routes requests to one or more registered targets, such us EC2 instances, using protocol and port number you specify

Protocols: TCP, TLS, UDP, TCP_UDP Ports: 1-65535

  • Encryption: You can use TSL listener to offload the work of encryption/decryption to your load balancer so your app can focus on business logic
  • If listener protocol is TLS, you must deploy exactly one SSL server certificate on the listener

Classic Load Balancer

  • Layer 4/7
  • Legacy load balancer
  • Use X-Forwarded-For to see the original IP Address of the client
  • If you application stops, you will see 504 Error

Sticky Session

  • Classic Load Balancers route each request independently to registered EC2 instance with the smallest load
  • Sticky sessions allow you to bind a user’s session to a specific EC2 instance -> ensure all requests from the user during session are sent to the same instance.
  • But you will have scaling issue, if don’t disable sticky session
  • Also you can use for Application Load Balancer, but it will go to the target group.

Deregistration Delay

  • Allows LBs to keep existing connections open if the EC2 instances are de-registered or become unhealthy
  • The time to way for in-flight request(inprogress request) to complete while de-registering a target. During this time the state of target is draining

What’s happened when all targets are unhealthy?

When the NLB has only unhealthy registered targets, the Network Load Balancer routes requests to all the registered targets, known as fail-open mode

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