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Creating an application load balancer

Creating an application load balancer - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Creating an application load balancer

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- [Instructor] Now that we have a target group set up, let's go ahead and configure an application load balancer to point to it. Let's quickly visualize what we're about to do. We already have WordPress instances contained in a target group. Now, let's set up an ALB to point to that target group. This way, when people hit the load balancer, traffic will be distributed evenly between the front-end WordPress instances. Let's dive into the AWS web console to get this done. From the EC2 dashboard, I scroll down, and click the load balancer's link in the left-hand nav. To get started, I click on the blue "Create Load Balancer" button near the top of the screen. Here, I have my choice of the type of load balancer I want to create. Since I want an ALB, I select the "Create" button under "Application Load Balancer". First, I need to name my load balancer. In this case, I'm going to call it WordPress. From a scheme standpoint,…

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