AWS Quick Labs - Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing

Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing

The Elastic Load Balancer will automatically distribute incoming traffic between multiple EC2 instances. It will provide a better fault tolerance for the applications and it can identify the unhealthy instance and reroute traffic to the healthy instance as well. 

In this blog, we are covering how to create an Elastic Load Balancer and adding instances to the Elastic Load Balancer. 

Create an Elastic Load Balancer

1) Navigate to services menu and click EC2, then select Load Balancers option on the left pan.

2) Click on Create Load Balancer and choose the Classic load balancer, in the next screen give a name and go to next page. 

3) Select an existing security group option on the net screen and go to next screen. It will take the default permissions from the security group. 

 4) Ender the values as in the screen below.


5) In the next screen, you can see two running instances has already been installed, select both of them and click next. Click Review and create on the next screen.



6) Click crate to finish the process

7) You can see your load balancer is created now, click on it to view instances in the load balancer and more details.Make sure that both the instance are showing In Service in the status, that mens both instances are ready.

8) Click the description tab, here we can find the DNS name as a URL. Copy the URL and paste it in a new browser to view the load balancer page.

Confirmation  of Lab Completion