Load Balancing refers to distributing workloads across multiple computing resources in order to avoid overloading some nodes while leaving others underused. When properly configured, load balancing can greatly increase an infrastructure's availability and performance, optimize throughput and response time, and generally improve the system effectiveness.
AWS has a purpose-build load balancing service called Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Since the effective use of load balancers is so important even to many smaller deployments, instructor David Clinton crafted this introductory course, covering all the main concepts and practical application of ELB.
As this is a beginner to intermediate course, you should be able to grasp all the core concepts with just about any background level. Nevertheless you may want to take our introductory EC2 and VPC courses first. Also, our Introduction to AWS might be another good, quick tutorial if you haven't yet seen that.
As a follow up to this course, check out our ELB questions set, and our advanced course How to Architect with a Design for Failure Approach, where you'll get the chance to see ELB in action providing high availability and fault tolerance in a cloud architecture.
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