AWS for Beginners — What is Application Load Balancer and How it Works: Part 19

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Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) can automatically distribute the traffic among numerous backend destinations, including EC2 instances, IP addresses, and containers. It monitors the health status of the targets and only forwards traffic to the healthy backend. It helps to keep your application always available instead of multiple unhealthy targets.

Types of Elastic Load Balancers

• Application Load balancer
• Network Load balancer
• Gateway Load balancer
• Classic Load balancer

Today we will use an Application Load balancer in this article.

How did the Application Load Balancer work?

It automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple healthy targets.

Application Load Balancer supports both Http and Https traffic. It can do SSL offloading. Path-based routing is also supported.

Read this article to know more…