New load balancer traffic control features

  • Services: Load Balancer
  • Release Date: July 17, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20170115

The Load Balancing service now offers the following traffic control features:

  • Access control rules: Permit access to application resources based on user-specified IP address or address range match conditions.
  • Access method rules: Specify the HTTP methods allowed by the associated listener. See Managing Rule Sets for more information on access control and access method rules.
  • Sticky cookies: The load balancing service now offers two flavors of sticky cookies to control session persistence, application cookie stickiness and load balancer cookie stickiness. See Session Persistence for more information.