Creating an application ELB

AWS provides an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) as a service. AWS has two kinds of ELB:

• Classic ELB
• Application Load Balancer

A Classic ELB can forward requests to one set of EC2 instances and an Application Load Balancer can forward requests to applications based on the application content/path/host. Classic load balancer can handle load for both layer 4 and layer 7. Application load balancer can handle load for only layer 7 protocol.

Getting ready

Login to the console with appropriate permissions.

How to do it...

The steps are as follows:

1. Browse to AWS EC2 console by typing the URL: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2. Click on Load Balancers under the LOAD BALANCING option on the left menu. Click on Create Load Balancer:

 Select Load Balancer Type

2. Let's choose the Application Load Balancer and click Continue. Provide the load balancer Name, Scheme, whether it is internet facing or internal facing and the IP address type for only IPv4 support of dual stack support. If you...