AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
Learn how Elastic Load Balancing spreads traffic across healthy targets and how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adjusts capacity, and how the two work together for high availability and lower cost.
Beginner 18 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
- Explain what Elastic Load Balancing does and why it improves availability
- Compare the Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancer types
- Describe how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling uses groups and minimum, desired, and maximum capacity
- Explain how load balancing and Auto Scaling work together for high availability and cost efficiency