This is probably the least "shiny" thing AWS has announced, but to me it's the biggest one yet. I can finally have a single LB for all of prod. This is probably the first thing they've announced that I will be using on day one.
It is kind of unbelievable that a feature such as this took so flipping long to add. But hey, it's here now.
Have been waiting for this for awhile. However, is needing to "warm up" the load balancer to deal with sudden spikes still an issue? This was a deterrent to going all-in on the ALB despite other benefits (SSL termination, etc.)<p>Also, wondering if there any obvious cons (perhaps performance?) to using one ALB to handle multiple routes vs. separating them.
With this announcement, is there still any benefit in having cloudfront in front of alb if you don't do any caching? I assume that aws has less latency on their internal network, but would love to see some numbers.
Does that mean - If I have 4 ec2 instances sitting behind an ALB, I can target and hit 1 of the 4 ec2 instances if need be? For eg. debugging purposes?