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AWS Elastic Load Balancing: An Architecture Deep-Dive

I've yet to ship a production architecture on AWS that doesn't involve Elastic Load Balancing somewhere. Most teams slap a load balancer in front of their service and move on. Fair enough. That works until it doesn't. After debugging enough 502 cascades at 2 AM, I can tell you: the differences between the four ELB types, and what happens when you pick wrong, deserve way more attention than they typically get. So here it is. Patterns, trade-offs, and operational scars from years of running load-balanced architectures at scale.

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