Posted on July 26, 2015. Reading time: 5 minutes I recently made a setup at work where I had a Nginx server facing the user, which would forward requests to a service running behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (aka. ELB). That in itself doesn't sound like a difficult task, you just find the hostname for the ELB and point Nginx at it with a proxy_pass statement like this, right? location / { proxy