ALB Keep Alive

Now, Application Load Balancer (ALB) provides flexibility that allows you to configure HTTP client keepalive duration for communication between clients and load balancer. With this feature, you can configure keepalive values to optimize client experience.

The HTTP client keepalive duration value specifies the maximum amount of time that ALB will maintain an HTTP connection with a client before closing the connection. 

The feature will allow customers to gracefully terminate their connections for deployment patterns like Blue/Green or rollbacks, migration of legacy applications, and while evacuating Availability Zones using zonal shift with Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. 

It is possible to set a value between 60 seconds and 7 days using a load balancer attribute as app clients’ keepalive duration, while the default value is 3600 seconds.

EFS throughput

Yday, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) has increased the throughput per file system to up to 20 GiB/s of read throughput and up to 5 GiB/s of write throughput.

Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. 

This launch increases the maximum throughput performance for EFS file systems using Elastic Throughput by up to 2x, to 20 GiB/s of read throughput (from 10 GiB/s) and to 5 GiB/s of write throughput (from 3 GiB/s). 

With these higher throughput limits, it is possible to extend EFS’s simple, fully elastic, provisioning-free experience to even more throughput-intensive workloads, such as machine learning, genomics, and data analytics applications. 

AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the performance, reliability and security of your online applications using AWS Global Infrastructure. AWS Global Accelerator can be deployed in front of your Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers, AWS EC2 instances, and Elastic IPs, any of which could serve as Regional endpoints for your application.

Since AWS Global Accelerator operates at layer 4 of the OSI model, it can be used with any TCP/UDP application. You pay the Data Transfer-Premium fee of AWS Global Accelerator (on top of Data Transfer Out charges) in addition to an hourly accelerator fee to improve the performance and availability of your applications. 

In a nutshell, Global Accelerator improves the security, reliability, and performance of user-facing applications.