Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video you'll learn how to create an AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) that balances load across your web application. You'll see how easy it is to hook up an Application Load balancer to an Auto-Scaling Group so that you're always guaranteed a healthy website when you do a page load, even if instances are failing in the background.

How to create an application load balancer
The difference between an application load balancer and a "Classic" load balancer

0:00 Create and AWS Elastic Load Balancer
2:10 Create a Security Group for your Elastic Load Balancer
3:00 How to configure routing for AWS Elastic Load Balancer (how to create target groups for an Application Load Balancer)
4:15 Setting up an ELB Health Check for our Web Server
5:26 Connecting your Elastic Load Balancer to your Auto-Scaling Group
9:38 Adding additional subnets to your Auto-Scaling Group for high availability
10:41 How Auto-Scaling Group Rebalancing works
11:58 + 13:40 Testing our load balancer
14:12 Summary
15:09 Teaser for Next Video -- Where to go from here

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