Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions, in multiple Availability Zones. It enables…

Key facts

First appeared: 2009
Category: technology
Problem solved: Elastic Load Balancing solves the problem of distributing incoming network traffic efficiently across a pool of resources to ensure application availability, scalability, and fault tolerance, eliminating single points of failure and manual traffic management in dynamic cloud environments.
Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

Related technologies

Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
Amazon Route 53
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Lambda
AWS Certificate Manager
AWS WAF
Amazon VPC
AWS Auto Scaling
Amazon EKS

Notable users

Airbnb
Many Fortune 500 companies leveraging AWS
Capital One
Netflix
Lyft