ELB and Autoscaling

Question 1

What is ELB

Answer 1

An Elastic Load Balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances in multiple AZs. This increases fault tolerance. It detects unhealthy instances and routes traffic only to healthy ones.

Question 2

What is Auto Scaling

Answer 2

Adds or removes EC2 instances depending on traffic demand. This helps with handling the load for your application. This gives benefits of scalability and elasticity