Networking & Content Delivery

Tag: Static IP

Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer

(April 25, 2024) Clarification – AWS PrivateLink does not currently support UDP.   Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a fully managed layer 7 load balancing service that load balances incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances. ALB supports advanced request routing features based on parameters like HTTP headers and methods, query string, […]

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 […]

Solving DNS zone apex challenges with third-party DNS providers using AWS

Many customers ask us how they can point their zone apex to their web content if it uses a DNS name rather than an IP address. This blog covers three design patterns and approaches that solve zone apex challenges with third-party DNS providers for applications hosted in AWS—and the pros and cons of each approach.