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Elastic Load Balancing Documentation

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in one or more Availability Zones. It monitors the health of its registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. You can select the type of load balancer that best suits your needs.

Overview

  1. Learn about Elastic Load Balancing.

Elastic Load Balancing - Version 2

  1. Use Application Load Balancers for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. The load balancer routes based on the content of the request.
  2. Use Network Load Balancers for TCP, UDP, and TLS traffic where extreme performance is required.
  3. Use Gateway Load Balancers to deploy, scale, and manage virtual appliances, such as firewalls.
  4. Provides syntax and examples for the commands.
  5. Provides syntax and examples for the API actions.

Elastic Load Balancing - Version 1

  1. Use Classic Load Balancers with applications in the EC2-Classic network.
  2. Provides syntax and examples for the API actions.
  3. Provides syntax and examples for the commands.
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