Thursday, March 19, 2015

Getting Started with Elastic Load Balancing - Elastic Load Balancing (118/285 technotes for 2015)

Elastic Load Balancing 

  • automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud. 
  • It enables you to achieve greater levels of fault tolerance in your applications, 
  • seamlessly providing the required amount of load balancing capacity needed to distribute application traffic..

  • Available
    • route traffic - across multiple instances, multiple availability zones
    • only healthy servers receives traffic
  • Elastic
    • scales well
    • integrates with auto scaling - back-end capacity to meet varying levels of traffic 
  • Secure

Use Cases
  • Better Fault Tolerance for your applications
  • DNS Failover for Elastic Load Balancing
  • Auto scaling with Elastic Load Balancing


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