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Inside your AWS account you can create public load balancers A Load Balancer is a resource that can enable Internet and Yale-network-only web traffic to one or more EC2 VMs or ECS container replicas, while enabling HTTPS certificates.

How you select a Load Balancer changes depending on your Data Classification. Please read about how to identify the risk of your data: Data Classification Policy.

  • low risk data will use a AWS ALB in your AWS account

  • high + moderate risk data will use an ITS F5 LTM/BigIP

You can create public (and private) load balancers inside your AWS account for your low-risk web apps, with little help from ITS. You still need domain name validation, TLS certificate, and DNS configuration.to request:

  • Domain name validation and website content verification of ITS YaleSites or Yale School of Medicin (“YSM”).

  • A TLS certificate via AWS, and separately, approval validation for the certificate from ITS YaleSites

  • DNS configuration from ITS for the website friendly name, e.g., example.yale.edu

ITS F5 LTM/BigIP Load Balancers will be requested through servicenow of the Load Balancing Team. You have to do the following work before you request a Load Balancer:

  • Domain name validation and website content verification of ITS YaleSites

  • Security Design Review (“SDR”) with ITS security

AWS Application Load Balancers (“ALB”)s

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