An overview of load balancers, explaining how they distribute traffic across multiple servers and provide high availability. We discuss layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers, detailing their pros and cons. We then focus on AWS load balancers, covering network load balancers and application load balancers in depth, including their features, use cases, and pricing models. We conclude by mentioning some alternatives to AWS load balancers.

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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

• Our previous episode "88. What is VPC Lattice?": https://awsbites.com/88-what-is-vpc-lattice/

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