Ingress Controller produces 502 Bad Gateway on every other request - amazon-web-services

Question

I have a kubernetes ingress controller terminating my ssl with an ingress resource handling two routes: 1 my frontend SPA app, and the second backend api. Currently when I hit each frontend and backend service directly they perform flawlessly, but when I call the ingress controller both frontend and backend services alternate between producing the correct result and a 502 Bad Gateway.
To me it smells like my ingress resource is having some sort of path conflict that I'm not sure how to debug.
Reddit suggested that it could be a label and selector mismatch between my services and deployments which I believe I checked thoroughly. they also mentioned: "api layer deployment and a worker layer deployment [that] both share a common app label and your PDB selects that app label with a 50% availability for example". Which I haven't run down because I don't quite understand.
I also realize SSL could play a role in gateway issues; However, my certificates appear to be working when I hit the https:// port of the ingress-controller
frontend-deploy:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: frontend
namespace: ingress-nginx
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-performance-front
tier: frontend
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-performance-front
tier: frontend
spec:
containers:
- name: my-performance-frontend
image: "<my current image and location>"
lifecycle:
preStop:
exec:
command: ["/usr/sbin/nginx","-s","quit"]
imagePullSecrets:
- name: regcred
frontend-svc
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: frontend
namespace: ingress-nginx
spec:
selector:
app: my-performance-front
tier: frontend
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 80
type: LoadBalancer
backend-deploy
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: backend
namespace: ingress-nginx
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-performance-back
tier: backend
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-performance-back
tier: backend
spec:
containers:
- name: my-performance-backend
image: "<my current image and location>"
lifecycle:
preStop:
exec:
command: ["/usr/sbin/nginx","-s","quit"]
imagePullSecrets:
- name: regcred
backend-svc
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: backend
namespace: ingress-nginx
spec:
selector:
app: my-performance-back
tier: backend
ports:
- protocol: TCP
name: "http"
port: 80
targetPort: 8080
type: LoadBalancer
ingress-rules
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-rules
namespace: ingress-nginx
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: "/$1"
# nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/service-upstream: "true"
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /(api/v0(?:/|$).*)
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: backend
port:
number: 80
- path: /(.*)
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: frontend
port:
number: 80
Any ideas, critiques, or experiences are welcomed and appreciated!!!