AWS Elastic Load Balancer에는 Application, Network, 그리고  Classic으로 분류가 된다.

각각의 LB는 support 하는 것이 다르기에 아래의 표에 따라 적합한 것을 찾는다.

 예를 들어서, EC2-Classic은 Classic만 지원이 되고, HTTP/2는 Layer7에서 동작하는 Application만 지원한다.

참고로, HTTP/2 로 ALB에 요청이 들어가면 ALB에서 HTTP/1.1로 Target Group에 flow 된다.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/features/

 

Feature
Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Classic Load Balancer
Protocols HTTP, HTTPS TCP, UDP, TLS TCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, HTTPS
Platforms VPC VPC EC2-Classic, VPC
Health checks
CloudWatch metrics
Logging
Zonal fail-over
Connection draining (deregistration delay)  
Load Balancing to multiple ports on the same instance  
IP addresses as targets ✔ (TCP, TLS)   
Load balancer deletion protection  
Configurable idle connection timeout  
Cross-zone load balancing
Sticky sessions
Static IP    
Elastic IP address    
Preserve Source IP address    
Resource-based IAM Permissions
Tag-based IAM permissions  
Slow start    
WebSockets  
PrivateLink Support   ✔ (TCP, TLS)   
Source IP address CIDR-based routing    
Layer 7
Path-Based Routing    
Host-Based Routing    
Native HTTP/2    
Redirects    
Fixed response    
Lambda functions as targets    
HTTP header-based routing    
HTTP method-based routing    
Query string parameter-based routing     
Security
SSL offloading
Server Name Indication (SNI)  
Back-end server encryption
User authentication    
Custom Security Policy