Amazon EC2 Load Balancers

Course details

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. To run highly available applications on EC2, load balancing is critical. That way if one instance fails, service isn't interrupted. Elastic Load Balancing is the tool Amazon provides to manage your EC2 environment and distribute incoming traffic to multiple targets. This course—completely revised for 2020—explains how to configure the three major types of ELB load balancers: classic, application, and network load balancers. Instructor Shyam Raj shows how to add instances, configure security, set up virtual Windows and Linux servers, and configure features such as sticky sessions and health checks. Plus, learn how to use Auto Scaling to maintain the required capacity to handle your workloads.

Topics include:
Configuring classic load balancers
Registering instances with the load balancer
Cross-zone load balancing
Configuring sticky sessions
Configuring application load balancers
Configuring network load balancers
Configuring Auto Scaling
Setting up scaling policies
Configuring lifecycle hooks

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Amazon EC2 - Load balancers

1. Classic Load Balancers

02 - Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing
03 - Introduction to Classic Load Balancer
04 - Configuring Classic Load Balancers
05 - Setting up Linux servers
06 - Setting up Windows servers
07 - Registering instances with the load balancer
08 - Cross-zone load balancing
09 - Sticky sessions
10 - Prevent direct access to Registered Instances

2. Application Load Balancers

11 - Introduction to Application Load Balancer
12 - Setting up servers
13 - Setting up target groups
14 - Setting up the ALB
15 - Adding target groups to the ALB

3. Network Load Balancers

16 - Introduction to Network Load Balancers
17 - Setting up servers
18 - Configuring Network Load Balancers
19 - Configuring multiple listeners
20 - Application Load Balancer vs. Network Load Balancer

4. Auto Scaling

21 - Introduction to Auto Scaling
22 - Creating a load balancer
23 - Creating a launch configuration
24 - Creating a launch template
25 - Configuring an Auto Scaling group
26 - Manual scaling
27 - Dynamic scaling
28 - Target tracking scaling policy
29 - Simple scaling policy
30 - Step scaling policy
31 - Scheduled scaling
32 - Lifecycle hooks
33 - Configuring lifecycle hooks

Conclusion

34 - Next steps