AWS Elastic Load Balancing Essentials

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 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.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Amazon EC2 - Load balancers
02 - What you need to know
03 - Introduction to Elastic Load Balancers

1. Application Load Balancers

04 - Introduction to Application Load Balancers
05 - Application Load Balancers - Setting up servers
06 - Configuring target groups
07 - Target group attributes
08 - Setting up Application Load Balancers
09 - Adding target groups to Application Load Balancers

2. Network Load Balancers

10 - Introduction to Network Load Balancers
11 - Network Load Balancers - Setting up servers
12 - Setting up target groups
13 - Configuring Network Load Balancers
14 - Application Load Balancer vs. Network Load Balancer

3. Gateway Load Balancers

15 - Introduction to Gateway Load Balancers
16 - Configuration scenario
17 - Configuring Gateway Load Balancers - Part 1
18 - Configuring Gateway Load Balancers - Part 2
19 - Testing the scenario

4. Classic Load Balancers

20 - Introduction to Classic Load Balancers
21 - Classic Load Balancers - Setting up servers
22 - Configuring Classic Load Balancers

5. Auto Scaling

23 - Introduction to Auto Scaling
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 - Predictive scaling
33 - Lifecycle hooks
34 - Configuring lifecycle hooks - Part 1
35 - Configuring lifecycle hooks - Part 2

Conclusion

36 - Additional resources