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ELB Application Load Balancer Playground
Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 4 hours
Students: 421
Rating: 4.3/5
Free playExplore without specific objectives or guided instruction.
Real-world experiencePractice in a live, pre-configured sandbox environment.
Description
Load balancing is a process in which network traffic is distributed across multiple resources capable of handling the traffic. Load balancers enable you to you to scale, and to route traffic to healthy targets and away from unehalthy ones.
Learning how to use and configure an Application Load Balancer will make you more effective at deploying solutions in AWS that handle HTTP traffic.
In this hands-on playground lab, you will have the time and freedom to really get to know the Application Load Balancer service.
Intended Audience
- Candidates for Solution Architect Associate and SysOps Administrator Associate certifications
- Cloud Architects
- Data Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Application Load Balancer
- AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
The following courses and labs can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
Covered topics
Lab steps
Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
ELB Application Load Balancer Playground