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skyebook on May 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Buying Load Balancers and Start Controlling Y...

FWIW, Amazon recently added the ability to load balance across AZ's (Still round-robin though)

Xorlev on May 28, 2014 [–]

Very true. Cross-AZ load balancing works quite well. I believe Amazon has said it's RR across the servers with the least connections, but degenerates to a simple RR without many nodes per AZ.

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