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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