Alibaba Cloud Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Alibaba Cloud Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a high-performance, fully managed Layer 7 load balancing service designed for modern cloud-native applications on Alibaba Cloud. It intelligently distributes incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple backend servers based on application-level…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2021
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud Application Load Balancer was created to address the escalating demands of modern cloud-native applications, such as microservices and serverless architectures, which require sophisticated, application-level traffic management, dynamic routing, and high performance that traditional Layer 4/7 load balancers (like the original SLB) could not adequately provide. It solves the challenge of intelligently distributing complex HTTP/HTTPS traffic, ensuring optimal resource utilization, high availability, and scalability for distributed applications.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
- Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
- Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling
- Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
- Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
- Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB (e.g., RDS, MongoDB, Redis)
- Alibaba Cloud DNS
Notable users
- Various enterprises utilizing Alibaba Cloud for their cloud-native application deployments
- Alibaba Group (internal)