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Expert AWS Development

You're reading from   Expert AWS Development Efficiently develop, deploy, and manage your enterprise apps on the Amazon Web Services platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477581
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atul Mistry Atul Mistry
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Preface 1. AWS Tools and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Applications with AWS Services 3. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow 4. CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing 5. CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito 7. Evaluating the Best Architecture 8. Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing 9. Amazon EC2 Container Service 10. Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Elastic Load Balancing, auto scaling, and fault tolerant


Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a service from AWS to balance the load automatically. It helps to distribute incoming traffic and scale resources automatically to meet demands. Users enable it within a single or multiple availability zones to maintain application performance.

Features of ELB

ELB provides these features:

  • Highly available: In ELB, incoming traffic will be distributed automatically between multiple targets such as Amazon EC2 instances, IP addresses, and containers in a single or multiple Availability Zones.
  • Health checks: In ELB, it will detect unhealthy instances or targets. It will not send traffic to them. This traffic will be sent to healthy instances or targets.
  • Security Features: You can create security groups inVirtual Private Cloud(VPC) and manage them. These security groups are associated with ELB and provide additional networking and security. You can create non-internet-facing or internal load balancers.
  • TLS termination...
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