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.
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