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Benefits of Classic Load Balancer

Following are the benefits of Classic Load Balancer (CLB):

CLB operates at both the request and connection level, and provides basic load balancing
CLB is highly available and distributes incoming traffic to single or multiple Availability Zones
CLB supports SSL termination, which includes SSL decryption offloading, centrally managed SSL certification, and backend instance encryption
CLB supports sticky user sessions using cookies
CLB supports IPv4 and IPv6 for EC2-classic networks
CLB uses both Layer 4 and Layer 7 for load balancing, which support the TCP and HTTP/HTTPS protocols, respectively
CLB can integrate with Amazon CloudWatch to get metrics reports, such as request latency and request count

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