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Practically all the Load Balancers are getting integrated with API Gateway? If not why not?

anshul0083

Jul 21, 2023

I am wondering why do we need the Load Balancer separately and in many configurations API gateway is also doing the Load balancing, so what's the reason and the good practice to follow?'

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Design Gurus2 years ago

While an API Gateway can perform load balancing for API traffic, a dedicated Load Balancer might still be used for initial traffic distribution. This separation can offer more fine-grained control and specialization in handling traffic.

So, following setting could be u...

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