Elastic Load Balancing allows the distribution of incoming traffic to your Amazon AWS infrastructure across multiple instances. This represents a great tool in avoiding failures in your applications and web traffic. ELB automatically detects fails in your EC2 instances and redirects traffic to other available instances. During this lab you'll learn to create and use your first ELB instance to balance the HTTP traffic between two EC2 instances. You'll also gain valuable understanding of the Classic Load Balancer behavior during an instance outage.

Pre-requisites:

This is a beginner level Lab, however, in order to follow the next steps you should be able to:

Learning Objectives:

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Log In to the Amazon Web Service Console

Your first step to start the laboratory experience

Classic Load Balancer planning

IN this step we will plan the deployment for the Classic Load Balancer

Create a Classic Load Balancer and register EC2 instances

This step will guide you through the process of creating a Classic Load Balancer

Configuring security groups for ELB

This step will guide you through configuring security groups for you EC2 instances running behind a Classic Load Balancer

Checking a load balancer's behavior during instance failures

In this step, we will test LB's behavior during instance failures

Monitoring your Classic Load Balancer

In this step we will take a look at the metrics on a Classic Load Balancer

CREATING YOUR FIRST CLASSIC LOAD BALANCER