Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes the incoming application traffic across multiple was ec2 instances.

Two types of load balancers :
Application Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer

Elastic Load Balancing :
It is in-region load balancing service and distributed traffic  across multiple availability zones -HTTP/S, TCP/S.
Fully fault tolerant
Buit in health check

Application Load Balancer Features:
• It has Containerized Application Support
• It has Content-Based Routing
• It support for  HTTP/2
• Contains Delete Protection
• Supports WebSockets
• Supports Layer-7 Load Balancing
• Supports Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Contains Request Tracing

Classic Load Balancer Features:
• Contains Health Checks
• It has High Availability
• Supports Security Features
• Supports Sticky Sessions
• Supports SSL Offloading
• Support for Layer 4 or 7 Load Balancing
• It has Operational Monitoring
• provides Logging
• provides IPv6 Support

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