🚀 Day-12:Project Update: Configuring a Network Load Balancer on AWS 🚀

Step-by-steps

I recently completed a hands-on project where I configured a Network Load Balancer (NLB) on AWS with Linux and Windows instances as backends, enhancing my skills in load balancing, cross-platform setup, and network-level routing.

🔹 Steps Involved:

✨ Instance Launch & Configuration:

Linux 🐧: Deployed a simple website using a Bash script on port 81. Windows 🪟: Set up RDP server access on port 8080 for secure remote connectivity. 🔹 Target Group Configuration:

Created two distinct target groups for Linux and Windows instances, optimizing traffic distribution based on ports and ensuring seamless service delivery. 🔹 Network Load Balancer Setup:

Configured the NLB to route traffic across target groups efficiently, allowing access through unique instance and port combinations. Verified the setup via the NLB DNS endpoint for accurate, port-based routing to each service (Linux: /81, Windows: /8080). 🔍 Why Choose Network Load Balancer?

🔹 Low Latency & High Performance ⚡: The NLB operates at Layer 4 (Transport Layer), enabling efficient traffic routing directly at the network level, with ultra-low latency suited for real-time applications.

🔹 Scalability & Reliability 🔄: NLB scales automatically to manage heavy traffic without performance degradation, ensuring high availability and reliability.

🔹 Static IP Support 📍: With static IP addresses for inbound traffic, the NLB supports whitelisting and IP-based access control, allowing secure and consistent connections.

🔹 Cross-Platform Flexibility 🖥: This setup demonstrates the NLB’s ability to handle multiple applications on different OS platforms (Linux and Windows) within a single infrastructure, each accessible via unique port configurations.

🔹 Enhanced Security 🔒: By operating at the network layer, NLB adds an extra layer of security for incoming requests, making it an ideal choice for sensitive workloads.

🔹 Health Checks ✅: The NLB performs regular health checks on target instances, rerouting traffic when an instance is unavailable to maintain continuous service.

✨ Outcome: Successfully balanced load across Linux and Windows instances, delivering reliable, high-performance access to each service through specific ports.

This project was a great opportunity to deepen my understanding of AWS load balancing solutions, and I look forward to exploring more AWS infrastructure tools!

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