Amazon Web Services supports three types of Load Balancers. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) functions at the application layer, the seventh layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
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How to use ALB Ingress without rewriting every helm chart?
I am trying to use ALB ingress with default helm charts, but struggle to solve simple problems with headers.
In Kubernetes ingress-nginx it's easy to add annotations to add headers (CORS), but with ALB I can't do such a simple thing.
I can solve…
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AWS Application Load Balancer: Re-routing requests to non-approved paths
I have a use case where I would like all requests to start with a prefix like:
https://WHATEVER/pfx
For example https://WHATEVER/pfx/a and https://WHATEVER/pfx/b/c/d
But I wish to prevent https://WHATEVER/somewhere_else and similar requests that do…
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terraform: Configuring load-balancer to use dynamic port of ECS task/service in AWS
This is sort-of a general question for how dynamic port assignments are supposed to work, though my specific context is trying to figure-out if there is a natural way for a target-group to know the dynamically-assigned port of the service without…
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In AWS how can I route outbound EC2 traffic through different Internet Gateways depending on the payload?
I have a weird scenario where I need to route certain outbound traffic from an app hosted on EC2 through different regional IP addresses.
Long story short we have 2 clients with APIs that our app communicates with to POST data. We found that their…
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Can you prevent routing traffic to an AWS ALB if the host is an IP address and not a domain name?
I'm running an ALB on AWS with multiple SSL certificates. The domain name is dynamically handled via the application on EC2. Currently, the ALB will route requests to the IP address of the ALB to the application. Even though the application has an…
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ALB instead of Cloudfront in front of single server web app
AWS Recommends adding cloudfront in front of single server applications for security and performance see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/dynamic-whole-site-delivery-with-amazon-cloudfront/
I want to add it for an…
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Direct Traffic from a Pulbic ALB to an Internal ALB for EKS
So I have an EKS cluster sitting in a dedicated VPC (EKS-VPC)
In my Main VPC I have a public-facing ALB that I want it to somehow direct traffic to services running in EKS.
More specifically I want the ALB to forward requests for specific endpoints…
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SQS is not working for multiple ECS (fargate) instances
I am using an application load balancer, under this ALB, a target group is provided. In this target group, two fargate ECS instances are running. These two instances use the same PHP docker image. When i upload an csv file, the tasks in the csv file…
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How to set multiple listener rules to load balancer in AWS?
I have set multiple listeners and rules for an internet-facing ALB as below
The 80 port only redirect to 443. On 443, I set two kinds of different rules with different target groups.
If I access /* path on my domain, it can forward to targetgroup1.…
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How to design a frontend service in AWS?
In AWS, we deployed a backend service - API in the internal ALB. For frontend(Web UI), it call the API and also needs to be accessed from internal enterprise network. It should be bind to Route53.
We are using VPN in our enterprise. We use…
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AWS ALB for TCP socket connections on a custom port number?
I have an application load balancer (ALB) and a number of web servers behind it. Apart from HTTP and HTTPS, the web servers also serve long-lasting TCP socket connections on port 52345.
When a client socket tries to connect to the ALB on port 52345,…
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AWS ALB Handshake resumption
I have a problem where the AWS ALB TCP is initiated and every request which causes unnecessary latency of 0-150ms
Example from postman to show what happens at every request. DNS lookup, TCP Handshake and SSL handshake are all initiated
And when I…
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Do AWS WAF logs capture all traffic, or just rule matches?
I want to implement some AWS WAF rules but I need more knowledge of the quantity (origin, resource, etc) of requests that come through my loadbalancer.
Can I skip ALB logs and get logs for requests to ALB using WAF? Or, does WAF only produce logs…
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Configure an EC2 instance as firewall of an Application Load Balancer
My current infrastructure is basically an DNS (Route 53) -> WAF -> ALB. The WAF is in front of the load balancer with some AWS managed filters. My application is a PHP web page and an API.
Now I'm trying to improve the security and have been trying…
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How to set a public LB route to a proxy on AWS?
I built this traffic route in a VPC.
Route53->ACM(SSL)->Public ALB->EC2(Nginx proxy)->Private ALB->ECS(Internal App)
The EC2's security group is allowing tcp 80 and 443. The ECS' security group is allowing 80 from EC2's security group.
When I…
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