Week 2 Day 1: AWS Load Balancers
*Week 2 Day 1 — Load Balancers: ALB / NLB / GWLB*
*Objective:* Understand the AWS Load Balancer portfolio and their traffic paths.
*Key Topics:*
*ALB (Application Load Balancer)* - Layer 7
*NLB (Network Load Balancer)* - Layer 4, Static IPs, TLS Passthrough
*GWLB (Gateway Load Balancer)* - Designed specifically for security appliances (Your CCIE Security background will be a strong advantage here)
Target Groups Configuration Examples
*Hands-On Tasks:*
Deploy a simple ALB + EC2 website.
Experiment with NLB + static IP forwarding.
*You Will Master:*
How to integrate FortiGate / Palo Alto / Check Point firewalls into a GWLB architecture.