AWS Elastic Load Balancer

A load balancer is a device that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes the application traffic across multiple servers. This results in increased capacity and greater reliability of the applications running behind the load balancer. Generally load balancers are grouped into 2 types Layer 4 load balancer - Acts on the data available in network … Continue reading AWS Elastic Load Balancer

AWS – EC2, EBS and ELB

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is a web service which provides re-sizable computing resources that could scale out or scale down very easily based on the varying work load. At a very basic level it's nothing but a virtual machine running as a guest on the host machine with the help of a hypervisor. Typically it … Continue reading AWS – EC2, EBS and ELB