Comments on: Amazon Releases Load Balancing

By: Amazon Elastic Load Balancer Setup | Serk

Amazon Elastic Load Balancer Setup | Serk — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:36:19 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:45:45 +0000

Assuming Amazons Load Balancer is stable and performs well I’d make some back of the napkin estimates that it might make sense to move the SSL termination to the web server nodes. Obviously there’s a lot of if’s in there. It will be interesting to see how things play out.

I think it’s a lot more interesting for IIS farms to avoid having to introduce a different OS to do the load balancing.

Cloud Watch looks very promising and very expensive.

By: Kyle Wiens

Kyle Wiens — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:55:42 +0000

You’re right about the LB being a lot cheaper. Unfortunately it’s pretty limited, and will require some backend work to get it doing things like SSL termination properly. I think we’ll still have to use it in combination with HAProxy.

CloudWatch is also looking promising, although it’s a 15% premium on a small instance.