Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing(ELB) is a service from AWS to balance the load automatically. It will help distribute incoming traffic, and scales the resources automatically, to meet demand. Users enable it within a single or multiple-availability zones to maintain application performance.
ELB offers features including:
- Automatically detecting the unhealthy Amazon EC2 instances
- Spreading incoming traffic to healthy channels
- Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) certificates are centrally managed
- Public key authentication
- Supports for IPv4 and IPv6
Elastic Load Balancer supports the following three types of load balancers:
- Application Load Balancers: Best suited for HTTP and HTTPS traffic and advanced request routing
- Network Load Balancers: Best suited for TCP traffic and to get extreme performance
- Classic Load Balancers: Connection and request level, load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
It contains the following benefits:
- Highly Available: Incoming traffic will be distributed between...
