Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)
Get a quick overview of AWS ELBs, Cloud Watch, CloudTrails, and EC2 Placement groups.
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Elastic Load Balancers
This is a virtual appliance that is used to distribute traffic across multiple application instances.
Instances are checked by the Load Balancers (LB) and they re-route the traffic if they find an application is not returning any data back.
All AWS Load Balancers have their own DNS name.
Cloud Watch
Cloud Watch is used for:
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Monitoring and setting up alarms that notify the user if an AWS threshold is hit.
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Events in cloud watch help you to respond to a state change of your resources.
Cloud watch Logs – helps you aggregate monitor and store logs. This is done by installing an agent on your EC2 server.
CloudTrail
Audits what is created or modified in terms of AWS infrastructure.
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