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What is alb and nlb?

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Network Load Balancer works at Transport layer (Layer 4 of the OSI model, Connection level). NLB just forward requests whereas ALB examines the contents of the HTTP request header to determine where to route the request. So, application load balancer is performing content based routing.

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