Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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 Elastic Load Balancing
Put simply, Elastic Load
Balancing automatically
distributes incoming application
traffic across multiple Amazon
EC2 instances.

Application scalability
Application availability
Cost-effective

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What is an ELB?
 Elastic Load Balancing Mechanisms
DNS round-robin resolution spreads
traffic between all ELB endpoint IPs
across all enabled AZs.

Each ELB endpoint IP spreads HTTP(S)

requests between instances in the
same AZ.

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 Elastic Load Balancing Mechanisms
DNS RR spreads inbound TCP
connections between ELB endpoint’s
IPs

TCP listeners distribute TCP

connections between back end
instances in the same AZ

HTTP listeners spread HTTP requests in

same TCP connection between all back
ends in same AZ

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 How does ELB scale resources?
By adding more IPs behind the ELB’s
endpoint DNS.

With instances run from CloudWatch

alarms + AutoScaling triggers

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 Additional features?
SSL termination for TCP and HTTP

SSL encryption to backend instances

Sticky HTTP sessions

HTTP header pass-through, adding X-

Forwarded-For, and X-Proto

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 What is the ELB HealthCheck?
HealthCheck is either:

•  A TCP connection

•  An HTTP request receiving status 200

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 What CloudWatch metrics are available?
•  RequestCount
•  Latency
•  HealthyHostCount
•  UnHealthyHostCount

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 Only Pay for What You Use
You are charged for each hour or partial hour your
Elastic Load Balancer is running and for each GB of
data processed through your Elastic Load Balancer.

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 For more information about
Elastic Load Balancing…
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