AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a fully managed service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It enhances the fault tolerance and scalability of applications by…

Key facts

First appeared: 2009
Category: technology
Problem solved: The manual and complex process of distributing application traffic, ensuring high availability, and scaling applications efficiently in cloud environments. Before ELB, engineers had to deploy, configure, and manage load balancer software or hardware themselves, leading to operational overhead, potential single points of failure, and difficulty in scaling rapidly.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
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AWS Lambda
AWS WAF
Amazon VPC
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon EKS

Notable users

Airbnb
NASA
Netflix
General Electric
Any enterprise utilizing AWS for production workloads