AWS Elastic Load Balancing (2)

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. ELB helps ensure the availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of your applications.

There are three types of load balancers provided by AWS:

1. Application Load Balancer (ALB): Best suited for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It operates at the application layer (Layer 7) and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers.

2. Network Load Balancer (NLB): Best suited for TCP, UDP, and TLS traffic where extreme performance is required. It operates at the transport layer (Layer 4) and can handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies.

3. Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB): Best suited for deploying, scaling, and managing third-party virtual appliances, such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep packet inspection systems. It operates at Layer 3.

Key features of AWS ELB include:

• Automatic Scaling: Scales the load balancer capacity to handle changes in incoming traffic.

• Health Checks: Regularly checks the health of registered targets and routes traffic only to healthy targets.

• SSL Termination: Offloads SSL decryption/encryption tasks from your targets.

• Integration with AWS Services: Works seamlessly with other AWS services like EC2, ECS, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch.

SymphonyAI Service Automation integrates with AWS ELB to enhance and streamline load balancing management processes. This integration helps automate routine tasks, improve monitoring and alerting, enforce security policies, and streamline workflows, ultimately leading to better management of traffic distribution and enhanced operational efficiency.

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