Category: Elastic Load Balancing

Following our previous post, Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers, this post explores architectural patterns to help optimize these expenses. Understanding inter-zone data transfer costs When network traffic flows across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zones (AZs), whether from clients to Network Load Balancers (NLBs) or from NLBs to targets, AWS applies […]

Building on the recent announcement of Gateway API support in AWS Load Balancer Controller, in this post we demonstrate a practical architecture that uses both controllers through a single API specification. This approach simplifies operations while maintaining the flexibility to choose the right AWS service for each networking requirement. Managing application networking in Kubernetes has […]

The Kubernetes SIG Network and Security Response Committee has announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. If your organization runs workloads on Kubernetes — whether on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed clusters on EC2, or hybrid environments — this upcoming change requires immediate planning and attention. This change impacts approximately […]

In November 2025, Amazon CloudFront introduced cross-account support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, which allows you to keep Amazon VPC origins and CloudFront distributions in separate Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. In turn, organizations with multi-account strategies can use VPC origins while maintaining their desired account structure. This enables a new architectural pattern for […]

As organizations scale globally, balancing user experience with operational costs becomes increasingly complex. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with Application Load Balancer (ALB) addresses this challenge by reducing latency by serving content from over 750 edge locations worldwide and maintaining persistent TCP connections between CloudFront and ALB origins while reducing Data Transfer Out (DTO) expenses through the […]

Before you head into the Thanksgiving holiday, take a moment to read through this guide and start planning your AWS Networking re:Invent journey! From December 1st to December 5th, Las Vegas, Nevada will transform into the ultimate destination for cloud innovation, making it the perfect time to look ahead to the one of the most […]

AWS Application Load Balancer is an HTTP request load balancer designed to provide scalability through load distribution and high availability through target health detection and unhealthy target isolation. Today, we are excited to introduce ALB Target Optimizer, a powerful new feature through which ALB delivers optimal concurrency to each target. In this post, we will […]

Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching weighted target groups for Network Load Balancers (NLB). This feature allows users to configure static weights among multiple NLB target groups. Weighted target groups enable you to easily perform blue/green or canary deployment strategies with zero downtime and without the need of multiple load balancers. This feature is […]

Today, AWS announces the launch of QUIC protocol support for Network Load Balancer (NLB). This capability enables customers to forward QUIC traffic to their targets with ultra-low latency while maintaining session stickiness using QUIC Connection IDs. In this blog we will provide an overview of QUIC, demonstrate how to enable it using the AWS Console […]

In November 2024, Amazon CloudFront introduced CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a security feature that allowed customers to deliver content from applications hosted in private subnets. In addition, we are now introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront VPC origins, enabling network traffic flow between Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancers (ALBs), Network Load Balancers […]