Networking & Content Delivery
Author: Long Ren
Long Ren is a Senior Cloud Support Engineer at AWS. Long enjoys working with customers providing technical guidance and assist in architect and build solutions and help them make the best use of AWS services.
Using AWS Lambda to enable static IP addresses for Application Load Balancers
Update: On September 27th, 2021, we launched Application Load Balancer(ALB)-type target groups for Network Load Balancer (NLB). With this launch, you can register ALB as a target of NLB to forward traffic from NLB to ALB without needing to actively manage ALB IP address changes through Lambda. You can also use AWS Global Accelerator to […]
Identifying unhealthy targets of Elastic Load Balancer
Introduction The Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service provides you with Amazon CloudWatch metrics (HealthyHostCount and UnhealthyHostCount) to monitor the targets behind your load balancers. Although the unhealthy host count metric gives the aggregate number of failed hosts, there is a common pain point when you create an alarm for unhealthy hosts based on these metrics. […]