A company is designing a highly scalable web application. The application will receive HTTP and HTTPS traffic and needs to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path. Which AWS service should the solutions architect recommend?

Answer options:

Network Load Balancer (NLB)

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)

Amazon Route 53

How to approach this question

Match 'HTTP/HTTPS' and 'URL path routing' with Application Load Balancer (Layer 7).

Full Answer

B.Application Load Balancer (ALB)✓ Correct

An Application Load Balancer functions at the application layer (Layer 7) of the OSI model. It supports content-based routing, allowing you to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path, host header, HTTP headers, or query string parameters.

Common mistakes

Choosing NLB, which is for ultra-high performance TCP/UDP traffic but lacks Layer 7 routing.

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