Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Why Load Balancer ? - Spread load across multiple downstream instances Expose a single point of access to your application Seamlessly handle failure of downstream instances Do regular healthchecks to your instances High availability across zones Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) - Load balancer is a service that uniformly distributes the network traffic and workloads across multiple servers or a cluster of servers Load balancer increase the availability and fault tolerance of an application ELB sclaes itself a necessary to handle load Incoming traffic distributed across EC2 instances in multiple availability zones Load balancer is the single point of contact for clients Three Types of Elastic Load Balancer s Three Types of Elastic Load Balancers include: Classic Load Balancer ( Layer 4 and Layer 7) Application Load Balancer (Layer 7) Network Load Balancer (Layer 4) Classic Load Balancer - Distributes the inc...