Lesson 8 of 12 · Core services
ELB and Auto Scaling — distribute the load and adjust the number of servers
Objective
Make a web application available and elastic: an Application Load Balancer receives HTTPS traffic and distributes it over several healthy instances, spread across several zones, whose number grows during peaks (sales, Ramadan, an advertising campaign) and shrinks afterwards.
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