This guide documents the entire process of setting up a highly available web application using AWS, from creating the VPC and subnets to configuring the Application Load Balancer (ALB) and testing its functionality. Let’s break it down step by step. ...
🛠️ Step-by-Step: Create and Use Application Load Balancer 🔹 Step 1: Launch EC2 Instances Launch 2 EC2 instances (Amazon Linux 2): AMI: Amazon Linux 2 Instance Type: t2.micro User Data (to install Apache): bashCopyEdit#!/bin/bash yum update -y...
Arjun had just mastered Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. Things were smooth—until one day, his company’s security team gave him a new mission: “We want every bit of traffic—before it hits any app—to pass through our firewall ap...
After launching a basic web app using EC2 and Route 53, Arjun was feeling good. Traffic was picking up. Features were getting added. Users were happy... until things started to break. “My app works fine... until it doesn’t.” He realized that as mor...
Introduction In modern cloud architectures, high availability and fault tolerance are essential to ensure continuous service delivery. In this post, I will walk you through creating a highly available architecture on AWS, focusing on the integration ...
Create Auto Scaling Groups Step 1 To create Auto Scaling Groups, we need to select the template which will be used to configure new instances while scaling the application. Go to next step. Step 2 Choose network such as VPC and Availability Zone. He...
Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is like a skilled traffic cop for your applications. 🚦 Imagine you run a busy restaurant with multiple chefs in different kitchens. To ensure every customer gets served e...
Introduction When building applications in the cloud, it’s important to make them available all the time (high availability) and ready to handle more users when demand increases (scalability). AWS makes this easy with tools like Elastic Load Balancin...
What is Elastic Load Balancing? Incoming traffic is uniformly distributed among several targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses, thanks to elastic load balancing. For increased redundancy and dependability, it operates across...
Welcome back, Senpai 🙈. In this session, we're diving into the wonderfully convoluted world of AWS Elastic Load Balancers. Buckle up, because we have four—yes, four—different types of load balancers to discuss. It's like AWS decided to open a buffet...
