Correct Answer: A feature that binds a user's session to a specific target instance for the duration of the session
Sticky sessions are useful for applications that maintain state information locally on the server....
Correct Answer
A feature that binds a user's session to a specific target instance for the duration of the session
Why This Answer Is Correct
Sticky sessions are useful for applications that maintain state information locally on the server.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Application Load Balancer — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Application Load Balancer is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
You need to route traffic to Amazon EC2 instances based on URL paths (e.g., '/api' vs '/static'). Which load balancer type should you use?
A company has a microservices architecture and wants to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path (e.g., /orders vs /users). Which load balancer type is best suited for this?
Can an Application Load Balancer direct traffic to targets in different VPCs?
Which ALB feature allows for serverless integration by routing requests to AWS Lambda functions?
A company wants to authenticate users via Google or Facebook before they can access the application behind the ALB. How can this be done at the load balancer level?