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In a single HAProxy deployment, the frontend points to the IP address of the HAProxy endpoints and the backend points to the IP addresses of the ECS nodes at specified ports depending on object protocol. The following figure illustrates an example of a single deployment. This is the simplest of configurations; however, the single load balancer is also a single point of failure and not recommended in production environments.