Use load balancing to distribute Amazon ECS service traffic
Your service can optionally be configured to use Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic evenly across the tasks in your service.
Note
When you use tasks sets, all the tasks in the set must all be configured to use Elastic Load Balancing or to not use Elastic Load Balancing.
Amazon ECS services hosted on Amazon Fargate support the Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, and Gateway Load Balancers. Use the following table to learn about what type of load balancer to use.
Load Balancer type | Use in these cases |
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Application Load Balancer |
Route HTTP/HTTPS (or layer 7) traffic. Application Load Balancers offer several features that make them attractive for use with Amazon ECS services:
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Network Load Balancer | Route TCP or UDP (or layer 4) traffic. |
Gateway Load Balancer | Route TCP or UDP (or layer 4) traffic. Use virtual appliances, such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep packet inspection systems. |
We recommend that you use Application Load Balancers for your Amazon ECS services so that you can take advantage of these latest features, unless your service requires a feature that is only available with Network Load Balancers or Gateway Load Balancers. For more information about Elastic Load Balancing and the differences between the load balancer types, see the Elastic Load Balancing User Guide.
With your load balancer, you pay only for what you use. For more information, see Elastic Load Balancing
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