Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing is an Amazon Web Services product that shares incoming application traffic among several targets. Those targets can sit in one or more availability zones, which helps applications stay available as demand rises and falls.

What Elastic Load Balancing offers

• Traffic distribution — sends requests to EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, Lambda functions and virtual appliances.
• Security features — certificate management, user authentication and SSL/TLS decryption.
• Automatic scaling — adjusts to changing traffic without manual configuration.
• Health monitoring — tracks application health and performance in real time to find bottlenecks and support service targets.
• Network appliance support — lets teams keep existing appliances from their preferred vendor.

Who it works with

Teams running modern serverless and container applications, as well as hybrid setups that balance load across AWS and on-premises resources.

Key facts

• Provider: Amazon Web Services
• Types: application and network load balancers