Load Balancing: Add an Application Load Balancer

An application load balancer helps to manage network traffic. It enables us to balance out the load from a single server. This improves application responsiveness, availability, user experiences, and security.

In this Cloud Lab, you’ll complete all the prerequisites to create the application load balancer and enable the application loader functionality.

The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you’ll create in this Cloud Lab to add an application load balancer to the EC2 instance:

Lab tasks

• Create a VPC
• Create Subnets
• Create and Configure Route Tables.
• Create and Configure Internet Gateways
• Create a Security Group
• Create New Instances through a Launch Template
• Create a Target Group and Register Instances
• Create a Load Balancer
• Clean Up