Abstract
Benefits
Simpler load balancing
- Only look at IP Address & Network Port
More secure
- As data isn’t required to get decrypted like the Application Load Balancer
Efficiency
- One single TCP Connection from the client to the Load Balancer, and from Load Balancer to the server
- No data lookup
Cons
No smart load balancing
- No access to data like Cookie and URL etc make routing decisions like Application Load Balancer
No applicate to micro-services
- Each Path may be linked to a different micro-services
No caching
- Because no access to Data