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Benefits of Application Load Balancer

Following are the benefits of Application Load Balancer (ALB):

ALB operates at Layer-7 specific features. It is used to load balance for HTTP/HTTPS applications.
It supports HTTPS termination between the load balancer and clients.
Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension of the TLS protocol. It indicates that it should connect for the TLS handshake. ALB supports a smart certificate algorithm with SNI to determine the best certificate to be used.
Host-based routing uses the Host field of the HTTP header to route client requests.
Path-based routing uses the URL path of the HTTP header to route client requests.
ALB supports HTTP/2, which is a newer version of HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that ...

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