How to Create an Application Load Balancer

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🤔 What is Load Balancer? #

A load balancer distributes incoming network traffic efficiently among a set of backend servers in a server farm.

🤔 Why to use Load Balancer?

Load balancers are used to increase application capacity (concurrent users) and reliability. They boost application performance by reducing the load on servers related with managing and maintaining application and network sessions, as well as by executing application-specific activities.

😲 What is Application Load Balancer? #

One form of Load Balancer is the Application Load Balancer (ALB). It handles application layer (HTTP/HTTPS) routing decisions, enables path-based routing, and can route requests to one or more ports on each container instance in your cluster.

How to Create an Application Load Balancer #

Lets get started on how to create an Application Load Balancer.

1. Go to the load balancer section and click on the create load balancer.
   

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2. Choose Application Load Balancer from the three groups of load balancers.
   

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3. Configure your Application Load Balancer by setting the listener port to 80 (HTTP) and forwarding the traffic to the previously configured Target Group. Now, click the Create Load Balancer button.
   

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4. Congratulations, we have successfully created an Application Load Balancer.

   When you update the A record in your hosted zone with the Application Load Balancer DNS name, all traffic will be routed through your Application Load Balancer.

   

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Did You Know?

Did you Know?

Application Load Balancer improves application responsiveness and availability, enhances user experiences, and can protect from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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