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A Gateway Load Balancer is a type of Elastic Load Balancer in AWS that distributes internet traffic across multiple targets, such as web servers or containers. It's ideal for handling incoming internet traffic to your applications, acting like a reverse proxy and ensuring high availability and scalability by routing requests efficiently and directing them to healthy targets. It sits at the edge of your network, making it perfect for applications accessible from the public internet.