What happens when a load balancer fails?
Solution 1
Typically load balancers are clustered together into a high-availability pair.
If one load balancer fails, the secondary picks up the failure and becomes active. They have a heartbeat link between them that monitors status.
If all load balancers fail (or are accidentally misconfigured), servers down-stream are knocked offline until the problem is resolved, or you manually route around them.
Solution 2
Yes if the load balancer instances both fail the service is essentially dead. Note that amazons uptime includes up to 4 hours of downtime a year (99.95%)
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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SteveGSD over 1 year
Let's say I'm using Amazon's EC2 load balancer. I have it hooked up to two instances (excuse me if my terminology isn't correct). What happens if the load balancer fails? Do both instances fail to work now?
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Josh K about 14 yearsStuff explodes.
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Admin over 13 yearsQuis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Kyle Brandt about 14 years+1 I bet in general: Misconfiguration > Hardware + Software Failure