Currently, customers can install the AWS Load Balancer in all EKS clusters and find guidance on the documentation website and the open-source migration guide for migrating from version 1 to 2.

By spreading arriving traffic across several EC2 instances, AWS Load Balancing enhances fault tolerance and guarantees best resource use, hence complementing Auto Scaling.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage virtual appliances such as firewalls or network monitoring systems in the cloud, the company said.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer aims to 'make it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances'.

AWS already offers a load balancer, AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). However, ELB can only be used for services exposed to the outside world, which can present security risks. Netflix addresses ...