Most microservices architectures encrypt traffic from the user to the load balancer…

But what happens after that?

Do you:

🔐 Terminate SSL at the Load Balancer?
or
🔐 Terminate SSL inside the container itself?

This single decision quietly affects:

• Security posture of your microservices
• Compliance readiness (HIPAA / PCI)
• Operational complexity
• Performance and debugging

Most teams choose the easy architecture.

But in regulated or high-security environments, that choice might not be enough.

In my latest Microservices Fundamentals breakdown, I explain:

✔ When SSL termination at ALB is perfectly acceptable
✔ When you must terminate SSL inside ECS tasks
✔ Why NGINX/Envoy sidecars are often recommended
✔ The hidden certificate management challenge inside containers

I also included two architecture diagrams to make the concept instantly clear.

If you are building Spring Boot microservices on AWS (ECS / Fargate), this design choice matters more than most people realize.