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routes requests to all those targets, regardless of their health status
AWS/Elastic Load Balancing
- outline
If entire target group of ELB is unhealthy, traffic to target group is allowed.
- reference
If a target group contains only unhealthy registered targets, the load balancer routes requests to all those targets, regardless of their health status.
This means that if all targets fail health checks at the same time in all enabled Availability Zones, the load balancer fails open.
The effect of the fail-open is to allow traffic to all targets in all enabled Availability Zones, regardless of their health status, based on the load balancing algorithm.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/target-group-health-checks.html