Elastic Load Balancing

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Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon
EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single

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 Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers three types of load balancers that
all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make your applications fault
tolerant.

Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Classic Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer is best
suited for load balancing of HTTP
and HTTPS traffic and provides
advanced request routing targeted
at the delivery of modern
application architectures, including
microservices and containers.
Operating at the individual request
level (Layer 7), Application Load
Balancer routes traffic to targets
within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC) based on the content
of the request.
Network Load Balancer is best suited
for load balancing of TCP traffic
where extreme performance is
required. Operating at the
connection level (Layer 4), Network
Load Balancer routes traffic to
targets within Amazon Virtual
Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and is
capable of handling millions of
requests per second while
maintaining ultra-low latencies.
Network Load Balancer is also
Classic Load Balancer provides basic
load balancing across multiple
Amazon EC2 instances and operates
at both the request level and
connection level. Classic Load
Balancer is intended for applications
that were built within the EC2-
Classic network.
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 Learn More>> optimized to handle sudden and
volatile traffic patterns.

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Elastic Load Balancing Benefits

Highly Available Secure Elastic

Elastic Load Balancing automatically
distributes incoming traffic across
multiple targets – Amazon EC2
instances, containers, and IP
addresses – in multiple Availability
Zones and ensures only healthy
targets receive traffic. Elastic Load
Balancing can also load balance
across a Region, routing traffic to
healthy targets in different
Availability Zones.
Elastic Load Balancing works with
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
to provide robust security features,
including integrated certificate
management and SSL decryption.
Together, they give you the flexibility
to centrally manage SSL settings and
offload CPU intensive workloads
from your applications.                        
Elastic Load Balancing is capable of
handling rapid changes in network
traffic patterns. Additionally, deep
integration with Auto Scaling
ensures sufficient application
capacity to meet varying levels of
application load without requiring
manual intervention.                            
                                

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 Flexible
Elastic Load Balancing also allows
you to use IP addresses to route
requests to application targets. This
offers you flexibility in how you
virtualize your application targets,
allowing you to host more
applications on the same instance.
This also enables these applications
to have individual security groups
and use the same network port to
further simplify inter-application
communication in microservices
based architecture.
Robust Monitoring and Hybrid Load Balancing
Auditing
Elastic Load Balancing offers ability
Elastic Load Balancing allows you to to load balance across AWS and on-
monitor your applications and their premises resources using the same
performance in real time with load balancer. This makes it easy for
Amazon CloudWatch metrics, you to migrate, burst, or failover on-
logging, and request tracing. This premises applications to the cloud.
improves visibility into the behavior
of your applications, uncovering
issues and identifying performance
bottlenecks in your application stack
at the granularity of an individual
request.

Elastic Load Balancing Use Cases

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 Achieve Better Fault Tolerance for Your Applications

Elastic Load Balancing provides fault tolerance for your applications by automatically balancing
traffic across targets – Amazon EC2 instances, containers and IP addresses – and Availability
Zones while ensuring only healthy targets receive traffic. If all of your targets in a single
Availability Zone are unhealthy, Elastic Load Balancing will route traffic to healthy instances in
other Availability Zones. Once targets have returned to a healthy state, load balancing will
automatically resume to the original targets.

Automatically Load Balance your Containerized Applications

With enhanced container support for Elastic Load Balancing, you can now load balance across
multiple ports on the same Amazon EC2 instance. You can also take advantage of deep
integration with the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), which provides a fully-managed
container offering. Simply register a service with a load balancer, and ECS transparently
manages the registration and de-registration of Docker containers. The load balancer
automatically detects the port and dynamically reconfigures itself.

Automatically Scale Your Applications

Elastic Load Balancing provides confidence that your applications will scale to the demands of
your customers. With the ability to trigger Auto Scaling for your Amazon EC2 instance fleet

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 when latency of any one of your EC2 instances exceeds a preconfigured threshold, your
applications will always be ready to serve the next customer request.

Using Elastic Load Balancing in your Amazon Virtual Private

Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Elastic Load Balancing makes it easy to create an internet-facing entry point into your VPC or to
route request traffic between tiers of your application within your VPC. You can assign security
groups to your load balancer to control which ports are open to a list of allowed sources.
Because Elastic Load Balancing is integrated with your VPC, all of your existing Network Access
Control Lists (ACLs) and Routing Tables continue to provide additional network controls.

When you create a load balancer in your VPC, you can specify whether the load balancer is
internet-facing (default) or internal. If you select internal, you do not need to have an internet
gateway to reach the load balancer, and the private IP addresses of the load balancer will be
used in the load balancer’s DNS record.

Hybrid Load Balancing with Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing offers ability to load balance across AWS and on-premises resources
using the same load balancer. For example, if you need to distribute application traffic across
both AWS and on-premises resources, you can achieve this by registering all the resources to
the same target group and associating the target group with a load balancer. Alternatively, you

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 can use DNS-based weighted load balancing across AWS and on-premises resources using two
load balancers, with one load balancer for AWS and other for on-premises resources.

You can also use hybrid load balancing to benefit separate applications where one is in a VPC
and the other is in an on-premises location. Simply put the VPC targets in one target group and
the on-premises targets in another target group, and then use content based routing to route
traffic to each target group.

Start Using Elastic Load Balancing

It's easy to get started with Elastic Load Balancing. Follow our console walkthrough to deploy your first load balancer
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