AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Seeing extremely long initial connection time

Question

For a couple of days, we often see an extremely long initial connection time (15s - 1.3 minutes) to our ELBs when making any request via ssl. Oddly, I was only able to obse

Answer 1

I think it is a possible ELB misconfiguration. I had the same problem when I put private subnets to ELB. Fixed it by changing private subnets to public. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-manage-subnets.html