Reduce Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) costs with these tips

Distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) cost saving tips

Optimize your Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) costs with these tips

Share Load Balancers

Since the billing of load balancers is per hour and LCU, it might make sense to share a single load balancer between multiple applications. You can redirect the traffic to the right application using target groups and the right listener rules.

Application / Network

Depending on your use-case it might be more cost effective to switch to a network load balancer. The hourly cost for NLB and ALB are the same, however the LCU-hour cost for network load balancers is 25% lower. You must however factor in SSL costs!

Application / Network

Depending on your use-case it might be more cost effective to switch to a network load balancer. The hourly cost for NLB and ALB are the same, however the LCU-hour cost for network load balancers is 25% lower. You must however factor in SSL costs!