Cross Zone Load Balancing

Each Load balancer instance evenly distribute the traffic across load balancers

If 10 instances, 2 in one AZ, 8 in other AZ, all of them will get 10% of traffic Without Crossload balancing

  • Traffic is distrbute EVENLY across Load balancers NOT instances
  • Enabled by default for ALB
  • Disabled by default for NLB and GWLB, if enabled, then inter AZ data needs to paid