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Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by ceejayoz »

meddlepal wrote: post #37
0xmohit wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was primarily referring to EC2.

Why do you need IPv6? It seems pretty unnecessary in a VPC.

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=05042016a

> Starting June 1, 2016 all apps submitted to the App Store must support IPv6-only networking.

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Post by manigandham »

crb wrote: post #57
manigandham wrote: post #53

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Yes, Google's load balancer is the best one available today. The lack of native websockets support is probably the only disadvantage but made up for with the scaling abilities and cross-region support. ALB pricing is strange too, classic AWS style complexity.

The Google load balancer supports proxy websockets over SSL (wss://) with the SSL Proxy mode: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl...

Yes, it's always possible by dropping down to the lower network level but it would be nice to have it as a natively supported protocol as part of an existing HTTPS LB.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by manigandham »

thesandlord wrote: post #64
manigandham wrote: post #56

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Google's load balancer does do HTTP/2. It doesnt have native websocket protocol support (you have to use the network LB for that traffic) but it does provide cross-region balancing.

Websockets over SSL is in beta: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl...

Yes, saw that, but it requires setting up a whole new LB just for websockets. It would be nice if it was just a natively supported protocol on the existing HTTPS LBs, is there a reason why that cant be done?

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Post by bashtoni »

johns wrote: post #34
0xmohit wrote: post #19

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BTW, is there any place to log feature requests?

Become a big enough customer

I run an AWS partner who deals with many large ($millions a year each but not tens of millions each) aws customers.

It seems like the number of customers asking for a feature is more important than the size of those customers in my experience.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by zob_cloud »

bradavogel wrote: post #68

Does anyone know if it (finally) supports sticky websocket sessions?

Yes they do.

For a single connection the websocket will always go to the same back end regardless of sticky sessions being enabled.

If stickyness is enabled, and the same client creates a new websocket, it will go to the same back end as previous connections.

Re: AWS Application Load Balancer

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Post by pyre »

koolba wrote: post #32
nodesocket wrote: post #16

Do ALBs support more than a single SSL certificate?

If the top level is the same you can use a wildcard (*.example.com) cert.

You're missing the use-case where you want to use a wildcard certificate and an EV certificate. You can't get an EV wildcard certificate.
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