load balancer

Application Load Balancer + ECS Service with certificate

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Running an ECS service without HTTPS is a security gap and a user experience issue. Adding an ALB with an ACM certificate gives you HTTPS termination, and ECS registers task IPs directly with the target group. TL;DR: Configure an Application Load Balancer with an ACM TLS certificate to expose an ECS service over HTTPS.Stack: AWS … Read more

AWS Network Load balancer

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Application Load Balancers work well for HTTP/HTTPS traffic, but when you need to handle raw TCP/UDP at high throughput with minimal latency, a Network Load Balancer is the right choice. It operates at Layer 4 and routes connections directly to target IPs without inspecting HTTP headers. TL;DR: Set up an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) … Read more