🎁 New User? Get 20% off your first purchase with code NEWUSER20 · ⚡ Instant download · 🔒 Secure checkout Register Now →
Menu

Categories

Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

An AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances and containers.

AWS offers three load balancer types: Application Load Balancer (HTTP/HTTPS, path-based routing, WebSocket), Network Load Balancer (TCP/UDP, ultra-low latency, millions of requests), and Gateway Load Balancer (third-party virtual appliances).

Features include health checks, auto-scaling integration, SSL termination, sticky sessions, cross-zone load balancing, and WAF integration. ALB supports host-based routing (multiple domains on one ALB) and weighted target groups for blue-green deployments.

Related Terms

Cloud Monitoring
Services that collect, analyze, and alert on metrics, logs, and traces from cloud infrastructure and applications.
Cloud-Native
An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.
Cloud Migration
The process of moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud computing environments.
CloudFormation
An AWS service that provisions and manages cloud resources using declarative JSON or YAML templates.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
A framework for managing digital identities and controlling who can access which cloud resources and services.
Cloud IAM
Identity and Access Management services that control who can access cloud resources and what actions they can perform.
 View All Cloud Computing Terms →