Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is a load balancing service that distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances and increases fault tolerance of an application. This chapter describes how to create ELB, how it works, and what the critical aspects of the ELB service are.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introducing ELB
- Types of ELB
- Features of ELB
- Working with ELB
- ELB best practices