Posted On: Nov 19, 2019
Application Load Balancers now support Weighted Target Groups routing. With this launch you will be able to do weighted routing of the traffic forwarded by a rule to multiple target groups. This enables various use cases like blue-green, canary and hybrid deployments without the need for multiple load balancers. It even enables zero-downtime migration between on-premises and cloud or between different compute types like EC2 and Lambda.
With this release, you can register multiple target groups with the forward action of a rule and associate weights on them. The weights can be set in integer range from 0-999 and can be changed up or down as often as desired. All the target group types - instance, IP and Lambda are supported. Additionally, you can set target group stickiness to ensure clients get served from a specific target group for a configurable duration of time to ensure consistent experience.
The support for Weighted Target Groups routing is available for existing and new Application Load Balancers at no extra charge in both Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. To learn more, please refer to the Application Load Balancer documentation.