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Any AWS users have a better experience with their newer "ALB" load balancer? It doesn't specifically call out any performance benefits over the legacy "ELB", but since it's much newer, I'm curious if it happens to do better.

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Yes. Although Administration / UI is slightly more confusing. We had unique performance issues with the ELB offering that couldn't be fixed because it was the way it was designed. With ALB, that performance issue no longer existed.

ALB may be more complicated, but it's also more flexible, and I've especially come to appreciate that in the past couple of days.

By the way, it looks like ALB might be based on nginx, based on the error pages. I wonder if classic ELB is based on HAProxy.

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