AWS Application Load Balancer launches Target Optimizer

This article announces the general availability of AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) Target Optimizer, a new feature for managing concurrent requests on targets.

• Enforces maximum concurrent requests per target for better resource utilization
• Improves request success rates, target utilization, and reduces latency
• Ideal for compute-intensive workloads like data processing and inference
• Requires AWS-provided agent on targets to track request concurrency
• Configurable per target group through Console, CLI, SDKs, and APIs
• Available across all AWS Commercial, GovCloud, and China regions
• Generates higher LCU usage than standard target groups

Target Optimizer enables fine-tuned load balancing by limiting concurrent requests to match target processing capabilities, improving application performance.