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Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing/Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) can be used to distribute traffic to multiple targets. ELB can be configured on Amazon VPC and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. It distributes traffic to only healthy targets.

There are two types of load balancers that are supported by Elastic Load Balancing:

Application Load Balancers
Classic Load Balancers

In the next section, we will cover Auto Scaling in brief.

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