Load Balancing
Load BalancingStep 1 of 4CONCEPT 03
Load Balancing
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Add a load balancer
Drag an ALB node onto the canvas.
2
Build the fleet
3
Send traffic
4
Even distribution
YOUR TASK
Drag an ALB onto the canvas. This is your entry point — all traffic enters here.
Diagram
Client
End Users
Internet
Network
Text
Annotation
Compute
EC2
Compute
Lambda
Serverless
Auto Scaling
EC2 Fleet
Spot Fleet
Spot Instances
Network
ALB
Load Balancer
API Gateway
REST / HTTP
CloudFront
CDN
WAF
Security
Route 53
DNS Routing
Database
RDS
Relational DB
Aurora
High Perf DB
DynamoDB
NoSQL
RDS Replica
Read Replica
DAX
DynamoDB Cache
Cache / Queue
ElastiCache
Cache
SQS
Message Queue
S3
Object Storage
SNS
Pub/Sub
Kinesis
Streaming
S3 Glacier
Cold Archive
Drag components onto the canvas to build your architecture.
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Press enter or space to select a node. You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around. Press delete to remove it and escape to cancel.
Press enter or space to select an edge. You can then press delete to remove it or escape to cancel.
SIMULATION
EC2 — t3.micro
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CONCEPT TIP
A load balancer accepts incoming connections and routes each request to a backend server. It hides the fleet behind a single address.
STEP 1 / 4
Add a load balancer