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Learn how to create an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Learn how to create an Application Load Balancer (ALB) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Developers

Learn how to create an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

- [Instructor] In the EC2 console take a look at your two running instances. You'll need to note two things before starting. Remember which availability zones your instances are running in, and also remember the name of the security group that both of your instances are using. On the left-hand sub menu, click on Load Balancers, click Create Load Balancer. And under Application Load Balancer press the Create button. For name type testalb. Under Network mapping, select your default VPC. And for mappings, select the two availability zones that your EC2 instances are currently in. I'm going to select the only two subnets that I have in these availability zones, but if you had created public and private subnets, you would select your public subnet. Scroll down to security groups. Load balancers use security groups just like EC2 servers do, so there's a filter on the network lines coming into and out of your load balancer.…

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