Elastic Load Balancing Features

                          

High Availability

Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes traffic across multiple targets – Amazon EC2 instances, containers and IP addresses – in a single Availability Zone or multiple Availability Zones.

Health Checks

Elastic Load Balancing can detect unhealthy targets, stop sending traffic to them, and then spread the load across the remaining healthy targets.

Security Features

Use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create and manage security groups associated with load balancers to provide additional networking and security options. You can also create an internal (non-internet-facing) load balancer.

TLS Termination

Elastic Load Balancing provides integrated certificate management and SSL decryption, allowing you the flexibility to centrally manage the SSL settings of the load balancer and offload CPU intensive work from your application.

Layer 4 or Layer 7 Load Balancing

You can load balance HTTP/HTTPS applications for layer 7-specific features, or use strict layer 4 load balancing for applications that rely purely on the TCP protocol.

Operational Monitoring

Elastic Load Balancing provides integration with Amazon CloudWatch metrics and request tracing in order to monitor performance of your applications in real time.