Lambda - Tag - Filipe Felisbinohttps://felisbino.dev/tags/lambda/Lambda - Tag - Filipe FelisbinoHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000AWS custom-crafted load balancer with haproxyhttps://felisbino.dev/posts/aws-load-balancer/Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000Filipe Felisbinohttps://felisbino.dev/posts/aws-load-balancer/Today’s tip is on how to launch a custom-crafted load balancer on AWS as a replacement for ELBs.

Motivation

First of all I need to say that I love AWS’ ELB. It is cost-effective and works just fine for most of the cases.

So why would I create a custom-crafted ELB? Well, there are some features that AWS’ ELB just don’t support. Things like:

  • A static IP or elastic IP entry point
  • UDP load balancing
  • Customized balancing strategy
  • Custom backend routing
  • One load balancer for multiple backends
  • SNI resolution(SSL routing)

So if the ELB is not suited for your use case, do it yourself :-)

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