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Re:AWS Communism: How we cut our Load Balancing cost by more... by jSherz on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:12AM (#28918277)
I'm not normally a fan of sharing ALBs between services as a lot of the metrics [1] are only recorded for the load balancer as a whole, not each individual target group (an application attached to the load balancer).

I can see the advantages of cost savings, but it's definitely a tradeoff.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...

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Re:AWS Communism: How we cut our Load Balancing cost by more... by 42sh4rk on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:22AM (#28918394)
Hasn't been an issue for us but I agree. It's painful to pay them $20+ just for the sake of fine-granular metrics though.
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