A citizen web portal must distribute HTTPS sessions across healthy application instances based on application content such as URL path. Which load-balancing approach is appropriate?
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Short Explanation
When you need the bouncer to read the URL on someone’s ticket before picking a door, that is Layer-7 application load balancing. It understands HTTPS content, not just IP and port. Plain L4 or DNS-only tricks cannot route by application path the same way.
Full Explanation
Application load balancers work at Layer 7 and can distribute HTTP and HTTPS traffic using content such as path or host headers while integrating health checks. Network load balancers primarily operate on connection-level IP and port information. For a citizen portal that must route by application content across healthy instances, an application load balancer is the fitting choice.