Using Elastic Load Balancing / Eucalyptus Load Balancing Usage Examples |
Use Case | Front-end Protocol | Front-end Options | Back-end Protocol | Back-end Options | Notes |
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Basic HTTP load balancer | HTTP | NA | HTTP | NA | Supports X-forward for header. Go to AWS X-forwarding for more information. |
Secure website or application using Elastic Load Balancing to offload SSL decryption | HTTPS | SSL Negotiation. See Updating the SSL Negotiation Configuration. | HTTP | NA | Supports X-forward for header. Go to AWS X-forwarding for more information.
Requires an SSL certificate installed on the load balancer. For instructions, see Uploading SSL Certificates for Elastic Load Balancing. |
Secure website or application using end-to-end encryption | HTTPS | SSL Negotiation. See Updating the SSL Negotiation Configuration. | HTTPS | Back-end authentication | Supports X-forward for header. Go to AWS X-forwarding for more information.
Requires an SSL certificate installed on the load balancer and registered instances. For instructions, see Uploading SSL Certificates for Elastic Load Balancing and Register instances with the Load Balancer. |