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Amazon AWS Amazon New Layer 7 Application Load Balancer

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  1. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    Amazon AWS announced that their existing Layer 4 Elastic Load Balancer has a new featured offering, Layer 7 based Application Load Balancing New – AWS Application Load Balancer | AWS Blog including the much needed HTTP/2 support !

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    Curious about pricing AWS | Elastic Load Balancing | Application Load Balancer Pricing seems it's based on regions and ranges from:
    • $0.0225 per Application Load Balancer-hour (or partial hour) + $0.008 per LCU-hour (or partial hour)
    • $0.0243 per Application Load Balancer-hour (or partial hour) + $0.008 per LCU-hour (or partial hour)
    • $0.0252 per Application Load Balancer-hour (or partial hour) + $0.008 per LCU-hour (or partial hour)
    Ouch that is kind of expensive for 1 new connection per second lasting 2 minutes and 300KB bandwidth = $22.39/month ! Better off using Nginx as load balancer at TCP or Application level or using Haproxy :)
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    lol Nginx folks already responded to Amazon AWS Application Load Balancer announcement at Choosing the Right Load Balancer on Amazon: AWS Application Load Balancer vs. NGINX Plus - NGINX

    side by side compare

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