Scaling Services with AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

AWS provides powerful tools to ensure your applications can handle increases in traffic and automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady performance. In “Scaling Services with AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling”, we delve into two such services that help you achieve this: Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.

We start with Elastic Load Balancing, explaining what it is and how it automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, like EC2 instances. You’ll learn how to set up your own load balancer and configure health checks to ensure traffic only goes to healthy instances.

Next, we explore Auto Scaling, a service that ensures you have the right number of EC2 instances available to handle your application’s load. We’ll guide you through creating an Auto Scaling group and defining the policies based on which your infrastructure scales.

Lastly, we’ll discuss how Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling work together, providing a robust setup to keep your applications running smoothly, no matter the load.