Along with enabling greater fault tolerance, Elastic Load Balancing on AWS allows you to add or remove capacity automatically. This can help increase your application’s availability by serving as a single point of contact for your clients—allowing you to add and remove instances without disrupting the overall flow of requests.

 

You can also use Elastic Load Balancing to detect the health of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. When detecting an unhealthy EC2 instance, traffic will be diverted away and spread across the remaining healthy EC2 instances. Further aiding your availability, AWS Elastic Load Balancing supports three types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, and Classic Load Balancers. You can load each based upon your needs.

 

Download our e-book on Load Balancing to see other specific solutions to your security needs within this space; advice from your IT peers on what works for them in EC2; a detailed comparative listing of AWS Load Balancer features, and helpful advice on more ways to improve your availability and scalability with solutions available on AWS Marketplace.