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Introduction
- Load Balancing are servers that follow internet traffic to multiple servers (EC2 Instances) downstream.
- AWS has 3 entries in Load Balancer Categories: Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GLB).
Why use a LoadBalancer
- Spread Load Across Multiple Downstream Instances.
- Expose a single point of access (DNS) to your application.
- Seamlessly handle failure of downstream instances.
- Do regular health checks to your instances.
- Provide SSL termination (HTTPs) for your websites.
- High Availablity across Regional Zones.
Why use a Amazon ELB?
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