Types of ELB

There are three types of ELB – Classic Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, and Network Load Balancer.

Classic Load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer is one of the initial offerings of AWS and handles the traffic depending upon application or network-level information. It is used for load balancing simple traffic across multiple EC2 instances where there is a need for a highly available, automatically scaled, and secured environment. It is not suitable for the applications that require advanced routing capabilities for handling the application traffic.

Creating a Classic Load Balancer

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