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Understanding Elastic Load Balancing

Learn how Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets.

Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming traffic across multiple application resources. This helps applications handle traffic efficiently and improves availability.
Load balancers can distribute requests across EC2 instances and other supported targets. Health checks can help identify unhealthy targets so that traffic can be directed to healthy resources.
Load balancing is an important component of highly available application architectures.
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