Document history for Network Load Balancers
The following table describes the releases for Network Load Balancers.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
UDP support over IPv6 for dualstack load balancers | This release enables clients to access UDP-based applications using IPv6. | October 31, 2024 |
RSA 3072-bit and ECDSA 256/384/521-bit certificates | This release adds support for RSA 3072-bit certificates, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) 256, 384 and 521-bit certificates via Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM). | January 19, 2024 |
FIPS 140-3 TLS termination | This release adds security policies that use FIPS 140-3 crypotographic modules when terminating TLS connections. | November 20, 2023 |
Zonal DNS affinity | This release adds support for clients resolving the load balancer DNS to receive an IP address in the same Availability Zone (AZ) they are in. | October 12, 2023 |
Disable unhealthy target connection termination | This release adds support to maintain active connections to targets that fail health checks. | October 12, 2023 |
Default UDP connection termination | This release adds support to terminate UDP connections at the end of the deregistration timeout by default. | October 12, 2023 |
Register targets using IPv6 | This release adds support to register instances as targets when addressed by IPv6. | October 2, 2023 |
This release adds support to associate security groups with your Network Load Balancers at creation. | August 10, 2023 | |
Target group health | This release adds support to configure the minimum count or percentage of targets that must be healthy, and what actions the load balancer takes when the threshold is not met. | November 17, 2022 |
Health check configuration | This release provides improvements to health check configuration. | November 17, 2022 |
Cross-zone load balancing | This release adds support to configure cross-zone load balancing at the target group level. | November 17, 2022 |
IPv6 target groups | This release adds support to configure IPv6 target groups for Network Load Balancers. | November 23, 2021 |
IPv6 internal load balancers | This release adds support to configure IPv6 target groups for Network Load Balancers. | November 23, 2021 |
This release adds security policies supporting TLS version 1.3. | October 14, 2021 | |
This release adds support to configure an Application Load Balancer as the target of a Network Load Balancer. | September 27, 2021 | |
This release adds support to configure client IP preservation. | February 4, 2021 | |
This release adds a security policy for Forward Secrecy (FS) supporting TLS version 1.2. | November 24, 2020 | |
This release adds support for dual-stack mode, which enables clients to connect to the load balancer using both IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses. | November 13, 2020 | |
Connection termination on deregistration | This release adds support to close connections to deregistered targets after the end of the deregistration timeout. | November 13, 2020 |
This release adds support for Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) preference lists. | May 27, 2020 | |
This release adds support for sticky sessions based on source IP address and protocol. | February 28, 2020 | |
Shared subnets | This release adds support for specifying subnets that were shared with you by another Amazon Web Services account. | November 26, 2019 |
Private IP addresses | This release enables you to provide a private IP address from the IPv4 address range of the subnet you specify when you enable an Availability Zone for an internal load balancer. | November 25, 2019 |
Add subnets | This release adds support for enabling additional Availability Zones after you create your load balancer. | November 25, 2019 |
Security policies for FS | This release adds support for three additional predefined forward secrecy security policies. | October 8, 2019 |
This release adds support for Server Name Indication (SNI). | September 12, 2019 | |
UDP protocol | This release adds support for the UDP protocol. | June 24, 2019 |
Available in new region | This release adds support for Network Load Balancers in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. | June 12, 2019 |
This release adds support for the TLS protocol. | January 24, 2019 | |
Cross-zone load balancing | This release adds support for enabling cross-zone load balancing. | February 22, 2018 |
This release adds support for enabling Proxy Protocol. | November 17, 2017 | |
This release adds support for registering IP addresses as targets. | September 21, 2017 | |
New load balancer type | This release of Elastic Load Balancing introduces Network Load Balancers. | September 7, 2017 |