Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances. It monitors the health of registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. Elastic Load Balancing supports two types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers.
User Guide Provides a conceptual overview of Elastic Load Balancing and information about the differences between Application and Classic Load Balancers. HTML | PDF |
Application Load Balancer Guide
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API Reference Provides syntax and examples for the API actions for use with Application Load Balancers. HTML | PDF |
Classic Load Balancer Guide
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API Reference Provides syntax and examples for the API actions for use with Classic Load Balancers. HTML | PDF |
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