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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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- [Instructor] Elastic load balancing, or ELB, is another AWS service available to assist in architecting and designing cloud based applications to be fault tolerant. An elastic load balancer in AWS is a component for balancing network traffic across multiple EC2 instances within multiple availability zones. This allows for greater levels of fault tolerance and high availability in applications. And the elastic part is built right into the service. ELB itself scales its request handling capacity to meet traffic demands, and it does this automatically. ELB has a few characteristics. It can handle the routing and load balancing of HTTP, HTTPS and TCP traffic to your EC2 instances. It allows health checks to be configured so it can determine whether or not the instances to which it's routing traffic are healthy and should be used. It scales with the demand patterns of an application. And when creating a new ELB, a single…

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