Following are the benefits of Network Load Balancer (NLB):
- NLB can handle millions of requests per second, maintaining ultra-low latencies.
- It can handle volatile and sudden traffic patterns using a static single IP address per Availability Zone.
- NLB is connection-based load balancing. You can route connections to different targets such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, microservices, and IP addresses.
- NLB is highly available and it distributes incoming traffic across targets from clients within the same Availability Zones. It only routes traffic to healthy targets.
- NLB preserves source IP address, supports static IP addresses, and provides the option to allow Elastic IP addresses.
- If NLB itself is unhealthy ...
