AWS Load Balancer
Hi guys!! Today's blog is about AWS Load Balancer. I am going to cover: 1) What is a load balancer ? 2) Types of AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) 3) AWS Load Balancer setup. So let's begin. What is a Load Balancer? Load balancers are servers that forward the internet traffic to multiple servers (EC2 instances). This helps in spreading the load and no single instance has to deal with all the traffic. A load balancer performs regular health checks of your instance and if any instance fails then no traffic is transferred to it. Using Load balancer is a good idea as your application only knows a single point of access and you are not exposing your backend servers. You can set two kinds of load balancer that are: internal and external. The internal means a load balancer which is private and can not be accessed from the browser/website and external means it can be accessed directly from the browser/website. What are the ty...