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Elastic Load Balancing

Overview

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across…

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Pricing

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Gateway

$0.0125

Cloud
Partial Hour

Application

$0.0225

Cloud
Partial Hour

Network

$0.025

Cloud
Partial Hour

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Elastic Load Balancing?

Elastic Load Balancing Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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July 28, 2021

Excellent way to manage network load if you already use the AWS suite of applications

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Professional in Product Management
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Amazon Elastic Load Balancing for our digital learning platform, as part of our suite of AWS products, in order to keep abreast of the stress on our various network targets and make sure the loads between them remain balanced. We also use it to troubleshoot slowdowns or bottlenecks in the network by running the diagnostics that Amazon Elastic Load Balancing provides.
Pros and Cons
  • I like being able to check the status of the load on any of our targets, in real time
  • It is helpful to be able to run diagnostics when we have slowdowns in the network
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancing integrates well with the other AWS products we are using
  • Occasionally we have a huge number of users using our network at once, and Amazon ELB isn't quite fast enough to scale effectively when that occurs. But this doesn't happen very often as our usage is usually quite stable
  • If we want to add another application to our learning suite, we would have to add another load balancer, which would incur additional cost
  • The setup was not easy and could really only be handled by one person on our team with the technical background to do so
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is great if you are already using a lot of other Amazon Web Services applications. It is built to integrate well with those, so your implementation will go a lot smoother. If you're already using other cloud computing services from different companies, you will have a much slower and more difficult time with integrating Amazon Elastic Load Balancing into your suite of applications.
Most Important Features
  • Integration with other AWS applications
  • Ability to run diagnostics on network slowdowns or bottlenecks
  • Customization of notifications so we can tell when the network is having issues based on our own benchmarks
Return on Investment
  • Allows us to troubleshoot and address network issues, which improves our end user experience
  • Provides an integrated way to balance our network load without having to deal with other suites besides AWS, saving time and effort
  • Allows us to see the effects that different code changes have on our network performance, which means more efficient development on the back end
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