What Is ELB?

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend servers based on the listening rules you configure. ELB expands the service capabilities of your applications and improves their availability by eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs).

ELB Components

ELB consists of the following components:

Figure 1 ELB components

Load Balancer Type

ELB provides the following types of load balancers: classic load balancer, dedicated load balancer, and shared load balancer. Dedicated load balancer and shared load balancer are called elastic load balancers collectively.

Currently, dedicated load balancers are supported only in the eu-nl region.

For details, see Differences Between Dedicated and Shared Load Balancers.

For details, see Differences Between Shared and Classic Load Balancers.

Accessing ELB

You can use either of the following methods to access ELB:

Parent topic: Service Overview