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Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is the third generation object platform from Dell Technologies. It is designed for traditional and next-generation applications. It is known for its flexible deployment, resiliency, and simplicity. ECS does not have a specific requirement for a particular load balancer. However, in an optimal configuration, a load balancer is recommended to distribute the load across the nodes within ECS and ECS clusters in different geographic locations. NGINX (OpenResty) is a free and reliable open source web server software solution that offers load balancing and other proxy features such as mail, HTTP, and TCP/UDP. It provides a cost-effective solution for customers who are interested in using a load balancer with ECS.