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AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Automatically distribute your incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
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What is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

With Elastic Load Balancing, you can add and remove EC2 instances as your needs change without disrupting the overall flow of information. If one EC2 instance fails, Elastic Load Balancing automatically reroutes the traffic to the remaining running EC2 instances. If the failed EC2 instance is restored, Elastic Load Balancing restores the traffic to that instance. Elastic Load Balancing offers clients a single point of contact, and it can also serve as the first line of defense against attacks on your network. You can offload the work of encryption and decryption to Elastic Load Balancing, so your servers can focus on their main task.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a tool in the Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy category of a tech stack.

Who uses AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

Companies
1764 companies reportedly use AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in their tech stacks, including Udemy, LaunchDarkly, and CRED.

Developers
10336 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Integrations

Amazon EC2, Datadog, Docker for AWS, Honeycomb, and SignalFx are some of the popular tools that integrate with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Here's a list of all 22 tools that integrate with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
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Decisions about AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in their tech stack.

Praveen Kumar
Sr. Business Analyst_PMO at IT · | 2 upvotes · 52.9K views

Hey!

We are planning to migrate web application with the same UI AngularJS to #AWS cloud with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Jenkins, Docker stack, to check its performance for 200 users. Any suggestions for alternative technologies?

What is the infra required?

Thanks in advance.

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Arthur Boghossian
DevOps Engineer at PlayAsYouGo · | 3 upvotes · 132.3K views

For our Compute services, we decided to use AWS Lambda as it is perfect for quick executions (perfect for a bot), is serverless, and is required by Amazon Lex, which we will use as the framework for our bot. We chose Amazon Lex as it integrates well with other #AWS services and uses the same technology as Alexa. This will give customers the ability to purchase licenses through their Alexa device. We chose Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information as it is a noSQL database, has high performance, and highly available. If we decide to train our own models for license recommendation we will either use Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS ASG as they are ideal for model training and inference.

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We are looking for a centralised monitoring solution for our application deployed on Amazon EKS. We would like to monitor using metrics from Kubernetes, AWS services (NeptuneDB, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, etc) and application microservice's custom metrics.

We are expected to use around 80 microservices (not replicas). I think a total of 200-250 microservices will be there in the system with 10-12 slave nodes.

We tried Prometheus but it looks like maintenance is a big issue. We need to manage scaling, maintaining the storage, and dealing with multiple exporters and Grafana. I felt this itself needs few dedicated resources (at least 2-3 people) to manage. Not sure if I am thinking in the correct direction. Please confirm.

You mentioned Datadog and Sysdig charges per host. Does it charge per slave node?

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Cyril Duchon-Doris

We build a Slack app using the Bolt framework from slack https://api.slack.com/tools/bolt, a Node.js express app. It allows us to easily implement some administration features so we can easily communicate with our backend services, and we don't have to develop any frontend app since Slack block kit will do this for us. It can act as a Chatbot or handle message actions and custom slack flows for our employees.

This app is deployed as a microservice on Amazon EC2 Container Service with AWS Fargate. It uses very little memory (and money) and can communicate easily with our backend services. Slack is connected to this app through a ALB ( AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) )

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)'s Features

  • Distribution of requests to Amazon EC2 instances (servers) in multiple Availability Zones so that the risk of overloading one single instance is minimized. And if an entire Availability Zone goes offline, Elastic Load Balancing routes traffic to instances in other Availability Zones.
  • Continuous monitoring of the health of Amazon EC2 instances registered with the load balancer so that requests are sent only to the healthy instances. If an instance becomes unhealthy, Elastic Load Balancing stops sending traffic to that instance and spreads the load across the remaining healthy instances.
  • Support for end-to-end traffic encryption on those networks that use secure (HTTPS/SSL) connections.
  • The ability to take over the encryption and decryption work from the Amazon EC2 instances, and manage it centrally on the load balancer.
  • Support for the sticky session feature, which is the ability to "stick" user sessions to specific Amazon EC2 instances.
  • Association of the load balancer with your domain name. Because the load balancer is the only computer that is exposed to the Internet, you don’t have to create and manage public domain names for the instances that the load balancer manages. You can point the instance's domain records at the load balancer instead and scale as needed (either adding or removing capacity) without having to update the records with each scaling activity.
  • When used in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), support for creation and management of security groups associated with your load balancer to provide additional networking and security options.
  • Supports use of both the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?
HAProxy
HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Traefik
A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.
Envoy
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
DigitalOcean Load Balancer
Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability.
Fly
Deploy apps through our global load balancer with minimal shenanigans. All Fly-enabled applications get free SSL certificates, accept traffic through our global network of datacenters, and encrypt all traffic from visitors through to application servers.
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