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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) overview

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

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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) overview

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- [Instructor] Elastic load balancing or ELB is a networking service that automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets such as Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, Amazon EKS containers, Amazon ECS tasks, and other components. As this name implies, this service is primarily used in load balancing, or in other words, distributing the incoming traffic load evenly to multiple underlying servers. So instead of just having a single server to process the load, you can launch multiple servers to handle the application requests and to provide high availability. With an ELB, you can route the traffic to healthy resources running in different availability zones. In this section, we'll cover the basic concepts of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and the importance of having a load balancer for your applications and multi-tier architectures. Let's begin by discussing the behavior of a simple website that runs on a single web server. This one uses Route 53 with a simple…

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