Application Load balancers

Since works on layer 7

  • Routing based on path in URL
  • Based on hostname
  • Based on query strings also

Target Groups

  • EC2 instances
  • ECS Tasks
  • Lambda functions
  • Private Ip address

The IP address will be in X-Forwarded-For The Port will be in X-Forwared-Port The Proto will be in X-Forwarded-Proto