Amazon EC2 offers elastic load balancing to distribute incoming traffic over multiple running EC2 instances while also keeping track of the health of the instances registered with it. Application load balancers function at the application layer.
In this Cloud Lab, you'll configure an EC2 Auto Scaling group (ASG) to work with an application load balancer. You'll start by creating and configuring the load balancer and target group, then create a launch template for the Auto Scaling group. You'll then create and configure the Auto Scaling group and attach it to our load balancer. Finally, you'll run a few tests on the application load balancer and monitor your instances.
By the end of this Cloud Lab, you'll have a strong understanding of application load balancers and their use cases. You'll be able to create your own load balancers to distribute the traffic across multiple instances, as well as monitor the health of your applications.
