Using Elastic Load Balancing / Eucalyptus Load Balancing Usage Examples |
Elastic load balancing requires two basic elements to function properly: a load balancer and instances registered with that load balancer. The following examples show how to set up the basic elements of an elastic load balancer configuration.
The load balancer manages incoming traffic, and monitors the health of your instances. The load balancer ensures that traffic is only sent to healthy instances.
To create a load balancer:
The load balancer monitors the health of registered instances, and balances incoming traffic across the healthy instances.