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.

Learn More About This Topic

AWS EC2 & VPC for Linux Administrator

Related reading

AWS Lambda & Serverless for Beginners

Related reading

AWS for Linux Administrators

Related reading

Related Terms

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

An AWS object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.

Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for building, deploying, and managing applications.

The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share storage, network, and lifecycle.

PaaS (Platform as a Service)

A cloud service model that provides a platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without managing infrastructure.

A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without requiring server management or infrastructure provisioning.

View All Cloud Computing Terms →