Is there a way to reduce load balancer cost with aws?

Question

I use AWS for my businesses, and i have a load balancer for every website of mine, only in order to have HTTPS (because it is easy to setup).

Now the problem is that load balancers costs are related to the quantity of traffic that the website receive, and because i just make money out of the quantity of traffic, i do not get any profit for many months now, so:

-Is there a way to setup HTTPS on an EC2 instance website without having to pay for quantity of traffic ? is ssh commands the only option ? if not i would love to know how, if yes i would love to know how too :)

Thanks a lot for helping me out

using load balancers just to use https just doesn't worth the price. i suggest you buying a third party certificate or change your architecture to a serverless approach, so you can use api gateway which has https protocol for free. — guijob
Or you can Get A Free SSL Certificate From AWS - Lawrence McDaniel — John Rotenstein
@JohnRotenstein yes but then the only way to be using this sweet "free certificate" from aws is by setting up a load balancer, which cost me 200$ a month since 6 months... So i basically paid around 1200$ just to have a FREE SSL certificate kindly delivered by aws so my website can be HTTPS. — Jay Cohen
Ah! True! It looks like the ACM certificate can only be used on a Load Balancer or a CloudFront distribution. In that case, you should buy a normal certificate elsewhere. — John Rotenstein

Azize Azize · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04T20:10:43

You can save money reducing the amount o ALB.
The usage will be the same, so you will not save money on this, but you pay also for each ALB hours.

You can have just one ALB with many target groups (each one for each site).
On this one ALB you can have many certificate also.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

Is there a way to reduce load balancer cost with aws?

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