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    Upstreams

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    About Upstreams

    Use Upstream resources to define a backing destination for a route that you want Gloo Gateway to …

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    Static

    Route requests to services that listen for incoming traffic on a fixed IP address and port or …

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    AWS EC2

    Route traffic directly to an AWS EC2 instance.

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    AWS Lambda

    Route traffic requests directly to an [Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda …

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    Route traffic requests directly to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service, such as Google Cloud Run.

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    HTTP/2

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