
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C01) Certification Guide
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Load balancing is a technique for evenly distributing traffic across multiple servers that support an application. Modern applications need to work from any location, potentially serving traffic to millions of users concurrently. To manage this, most apps use several servers with the same data on them placed in strategic locations. For example, three servers in North America, three servers in Europe, and three servers in Asia.
AWS adds the concept of elasticity to this, meaning that the number of servers can dynamically grow or shrink to provide enough capacity to meet demand without overspending. In this chapter, you will learn about the fundamentals of load balancing and how AWS implements load balancing, focusing on three key topics:
This chapter aligns with the exam domains of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB); specifically, that of load balancing fundamentals...