Load balancers distribute the load across different systems. They help us handle loads effectively to achieve reliability and high availability. Load balancers can terminate TLS at the load balancer level and provide us with a single place to manage the X.509 certificates that are required. They can also perform TCP passthrough for the TLS traffic and let TLS terminate at the instance level. Firewalls are important security mechanisms that protect networks and systems by monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing traffic. In this chapter, we will learn about various ways in which we can implement load balancers and firewalls within AWS.
This chapter will cover the following recipes:
- Enabling HTTPS on an EC2 instance
- Creating an SSL/TLS certificate with ACM
- Creating a classic load balancer
- Creating ELB target groups
- Using an application...
