Introduction to ELB
Imagine a busy cop managing cars at a crowded crossroads. That’s precisely the role AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) plays in the online world for web traffic. The role of ELB is to automatically distribute an application’s incoming traffic across multiple targets, ensuring that no single server bears an undue burden:
Figure 7.1 – ELB load distribution
Types of load balancers
Just like different intersections require different traffic strategies, AWS understands that different applications have unique demands. To cater to this diversity, AWS offers different types of load balancers, each fine-tuned for specific scenarios. Let’s explore the details of the load balancer and demystify their roles and responsibilities.
The following are some of the different types of load balancers in AWS:
- Application load balancer (ALB): An ALB is designed for HTTP and HTTPS web traffic, the different types...
