Elastic Load Balancer

A load balancer distributes network traffic across a group of servers.

Application Load Balancer

HTTP and HTTPS. They operate at Layer 7 (Application Layer) of the OSI model.

Network Load Balancer

TCP and High Performance

Classic Load Balancer (legacy)

HTTP and HTTPS

Gateway Load Balancer

To third-party visual appliencies running in AWS

7 Layer Model

A conceptual framework which describes the function of a network.