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		hcc on May 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is load balancing gRPC tricky? Why tie the L7 load balancer solution to AWS while the rest of the article does not mention AWS? It already worked fine way before October with envoy or haproxy for example.

alpb on May 14, 2021 [–]

Yeah, Google's L7 load balancers have been supporting gRPC since forever, but I'm also surprised to hear AWS and Cloudflare only recently added gRPC support. Maybe the author uses only AWS so that's why only AWS is relevant to them. OSS proxies and gateways like envoy had it from the get go.

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