Comparison Amazon ALB vs Amazon ELB

Amazon ALB is an Application Load Balancer provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS also provides two other types of load balancers, namely, the Classic Load Balancer and the Network Load Balancer. Amazon ALB comes with other related Amazon services such as AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Amazon ALB comes with a wide range of features such as Layer-7 Load Balancing, TLS Offloading, WebSockets Support, Server Name Indication (SNI) and Sticky Sessions. It works on the OSI model. It also provides security features for increased protection. It provides routing options such as host-based routing, path-based routing, HTTP header-based routing, source IP address CIDR-based routing and query string parameter-based routing.

Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) is a service which is a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon ELB allows for the proper distribution of networks and aims at improving the performance and scalability of applications. Its traffic distribution is done by way of Availability Zones (AZs). Amazon ELB allows its users to modernize applications with simple configurations while retaining the network appliances of their preferred choice. It is recognized by users for its high availability and throughput. Amazon ELB also performs health check improvements and monitoring for the proper functioning of the applications. It provides operational monitoring, logging and deletion protection.