In this section, we will take a look at some of the network services AWS offers. Many of the services do not have a direct network implication, such as DNS and content distribution network. They are relevant in our discussion due to their close relationship with the network and application's performance.
Network scaling services
Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) allows incoming traffic from the internet to be automatically distributed across multiple EC2 instances. Just like load balancers in the physical world, this allows us to have better redundancy and fault tolerance while reducing the per-server load. ELB comes in two flavors: application and network load balancing.
The application load balancer...
