Integrating ELBs With AWS Services

In this lesson, we shall be discussing Amazon Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and how ELBs integrate with other AWS services to help provide high availability, improve performance, and increase security for your applications.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will have a greater understanding of:

• ELBs integrations with key AWS services
• ELBs importance to Amazon Kubernetes

Intended Audience

Anyone working with AWS Networking will benefit from this lesson, also if you are:

• Studying for the AWS Networking Specialty certification
• Studying for the AWS Solutions Architect certifications

If you are looking to increase your AWS knowledge, this lesson is for you.

Prerequisites

Before attending this lesson, you should be familiar with Amazon ELB, including the different ELB types and how they are configured. Experience with AWS services such as CloudFront, WAF, and Global Accelerator is also desirable but not required.

For more information on these services, please see our existing lessons: 

• Using Elastic Load Balancing & EC2 Auto Scaling to support AWS workloads 
• Introduction to DNS & Content Delivery on AWS
• Protecting your Web Apps against common exploits using AWS WAF
• AWS Networking features essential for a solutions architect
• Using Amazon Route 53 to route end users to internet applications