EC2 - Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)


  • Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones.
  • Elastic Load Balancing monitors the health of its registered targets, and routes traffic only to the healthy targets.
  • Elastic Load Balancing scales your load balancer capacity automatically in response to changes in incoming traffic.
  • Types are as below based on your implementation,
    • Application Load Balancers
    • Network Load Balancers
    • Gateway Load Balancers
    • Classic Load Balancers
  • Target Groups do work on similar line.

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