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Practical AWS Networking

You're reading from   Practical AWS Networking Build and manage complex networks using services such as Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect, and Amazon Route 53

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788398299
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Creating and configuring ELB

We are going to create instances in a default VPC and then we will configure load balancer to route the traffic to instances.

Let's create an instance in the free tier, then install Tomcat and deploy an application in it.

  1. Go to Services | Compute | EC2 | Instances | Launch Instance:
  1. Select Amazon Linux AMI. Keep the instance type as t2.micro:
  1. Click on Next: Configure Instance Details.
  2. Select the default VPC and subnet to launch the instance. Click on Next: Add Storage:
  1. Keep the default settings and select Next: Add Tags. 
  2. Add tags if required and click on Next: Configure Security Group.
  1. Select the default security group or create a new security group. Click on Review and Launch:
  1. Review all the configured details properly and click on Launch.
  2. Select the key pair available with you, so you can access...
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