Overview of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Explore Elastic Load Balancing to distribute application traffic efficiently across multiple AWS resources. Understand the differences between Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers and how to apply them for scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.
Imagine we’re deploying a modern web application that needs to serve thousands—or even millions—of users worldwide. One of the first architectural problems we’ll face is traffic distribution. That’s where Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) steps in. ELB is an AWS-managed service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses within one or more Availability Zones.
Scalability and availability are key in cloud-native applications. Load balancing ensures that no single component becomes a bottleneck or point of failure. Instead of ...