Friday, June 8, 2018

Q&A: any impact on active connections if we change the security/cipher policy of AWS ELB

During the SSL connection negotiation process, the client and the load balancer present a list of ciphers and protocols that they each support, in order of preference. Once these are selected for a connection, they will not change for that connection even if the SSL Security Policies are changed in the load balancer. To rephrase, any new connections after the SSL Policy change will be serviced by the new configuration and all existing connections will continue to be serviced by as per the old policy.


However, please note that for an Application Load Balancer, connections that are kept open for longer than 60 minutes will be forcibly terminated during SSL related configuration changes.

And yes, once the ELB is removed, all the custom policies are also removed.