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What is an ELB?

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EC2 Load balancer is a managed load balancer.
Load balancers are servers that forward internet traffic to multiple servers (EC2 Instances) downstream.
• It costs less to set up your own load balancer but it will be a lot more effort on your end.
• It is integrated with many AWS offerings/services.

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Why is useful ELB Health Checks?

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They enable the load balancer to know if instances it forwards traffic to are available to reply to requests

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How does the ELB Health Check works?

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  • The health check is done on a port and a route (/health is common)
  • If the response is not 200 (OK), then the instance is unhealthy
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What are the 3 kinds of managed Load Balancers?

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  • Classic Load Balancer
  • Application Load Balancer
  • Network Load Balancer
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How would you create ELB SGs?

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ELB SG: receive HTTPS and HTTP from anywhere and restrict EC2 instances behind the ELB to accept just ELB SG private HTTP requests on port 80

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Can you scale an ELB?

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Yes, but not instantaneously, you need to contact AWS for a “warm-up”

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What means ELB 503 error?

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At capacity or no registered target

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What to do if your ELB can’t connect to your appllication?

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Check your SGs

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What can you use for ELB monitoring?

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ELB access logs and CloudWatch Metrics

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What does provide a Classic Load Balancer?

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It provides a fixed hostname and basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances

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At what level does operate a Classic Load Balancer?

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operates at both the request level (layer 7, HTTP, HTTPS) and connection level (layer 4, TCP)

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What is intended for a Classic Load Balancer?

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is intended for applications that were built within the EC2-Classic network

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What does provide an Application Load Balancer?

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It provides a fixed hostname and advanced request routing to target groups based on request:

  • path
  • hostname
  • query string, headers
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At what level does operate an Application Load Balancer?

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operates at request level (layer 7, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket)

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What is intended for an Application Load Balancer?

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modern application architectures, including microservices and containers

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What would you need roughly to replace an Application Load Balancer in front of several applications with a Classic Load Balancer?

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multiple Classic Load Balancer per application

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What feature does provide an Application Load Balancer to communicate to ECS?

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A port mapping feature to redirect to a dynamic port in ECS

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What are the Application Load Balancer’s target groups?

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  • EC2 instances (can be managed by an ASG) – HTTP
  • Lambda functions – HTTP request is translated into a JSON event
  • IP Addresses – must be private IPs
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At what level does Health Check occur on Application Load Balancers?

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At target group level

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How an application server behind an Application Load Balancer can see the IP, port and protocol of the client directly?

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  • The true IP of the client is inserted in the header X-Forwarded-For
  • We can also get Port (X-Forwarded-Port) and proto (X-Forwarded-Proto)
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What does provide a Network Load Balancer?

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High performance load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic

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At what level does operate a Network Load Balancer?

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At connection level (layer 4, TCP, UDP, TLS)

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What is intended for a Network Load Balancer?

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extreme performance

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What ELB is not free tier?

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Network Load Balancer

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What is Load Balancer Stickiness?
the same client is always redirected to the same instance behind a load balancer
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What ELB are compatible with Stickiness?
Classic and Application Load Balancers
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What can you control in an ELB Stickiness configuration
The expiration date of the cookie used
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What could cause ELB Stickiness?
May bring imbalance to load
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What is a common use case for ELB Stickiness?
make sure the user doesn’t lose his session data
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What is Cross-Zone Load Balancing?
A configuration where each load balancer instance distributes evenly across all registered instances in all AZ
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What is the behavior if Cross-Zone Load Balancing is disabled?
each load balancer node distributes requests evenly across the registered instances in its Availability Zone only
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How is Cross-Zone Load Balancing by default on ELBs?
* Classic Load Balancer: Disabled by default * Application Load Balancer: Always on (can’t be disabled) * Network Load Balancer: Disabled by default
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What SSL certificates use ELBs?
an x.509 certificate, but you can create or upload your own certificates alternatively
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What you must specify for ELB's HTTPS listeners?
A default SSL certificate
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What can you do to support multiple domains on ELBs from security perspective?
you can add optional list of certs
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How can the ELB redirect to correct hostname in case it is in front of many different hostnames?
clients can use SNI to specify the hostname they reach
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How can an ELB support older versions of SSL / TLS?
It provides the ability to specify a security policy
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What problem solves SNI?
solves the problem of loading multiple SSL certificates onto one web server (to serve multiple websites)
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What is SNI?
Server Name Indication is a “newer” protocol, and requires the client to indicate the hostname of the target server in the initial SSL handshake
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With what ELB does SNI work?
ALB and NLB (newer generation) and CloudFront
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What's ELB Connection Draining?
Time to complete “in-flight requests” while the instance is de-registering or unhealthy
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What is the name of Connection Draining for ALBs and NLBs
Deregistration Delay
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What is the default and range values of Connection Draining?
Between 1 second and 1 hour, the default is 5 minutes
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Can you disable Connection Draining?
Yes, set it to 0
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Which ELB does provide a fixed IP address?
NLB (helpful for whitelisting specific IP)
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What is exposed by a load balancer?
a single point of access (DNS) to your application
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What are 4xx and 5xx errors in ELBs?
- 4xx errors are client induced errors | - 5xx errors are application induced errors

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