Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a managed load balancing service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It ensures the fault tolerance,…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2009
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- The core problem Amazon Elastic Load Balancing was created to solve, which its predecessors struggled with in a cloud context, was the dynamic scalability, elasticity, and high availability of application traffic distribution without manual intervention. Traditional hardware and software load balancers required significant upfront investment, manual provisioning, and complex configurations for scaling out or in, especially in response to unpredictable demand spikes. They lacked native, programmatic integration with virtualized cloud compute resources and the ability to automatically adjust capacity and health checks in an ephemeral environment. ELB eliminated this operational overhead, allowing applications to leverage the cloud's elasticity seamlessly.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Airbnb
- NASA
- Verizon
- Capital One
- Netflix
- General Electric