Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Primary Use Case

Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

In my company, we use it to post, you know, a variety of business applications, like ERP, finance applications, and legal applications, which we post using EC2 instances.

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Prasanth MG - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Readyly

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is used to automatically scale up and down the number of server nodes we have. For example, if we wanted to provision an EC2 machine as our website server, this one machine might not be able to handle an increase in traffic.

If the traffic increases, AWS will automatically add one more machine, which is an exact copy of the other machine, and that will take the additional node. With Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, you set the minimum and maximum limits. For example, at minimum, you should have two servers; at maximum, you can have four servers. So the number of servers can oscillate between two and four depending on the traffic.

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Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Tech Exchange

I host virtual machines and multiple web servers in AWS and use Cloudflare as the front end. I don't use the front end offered by AWS. The developer recommended using Cloudflare because it's so much easier.

I have only deployed Elastic Load Balancing for two companies so far, but we evaluated it for the university where I previously worked. Unfortunately, they didn't take our advice and went with it. It required a lot of extra effort to integrate it with the firewall.

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Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Our company is an AWS partner that sets up, integrates, and supports the solution for our customers. We use the solution's load balancing and auto-scaling features. 

Forty-two current staff members use the solution and one of our banking customers exceeds one million end users on the customer-facing application. 

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Swathi Minchala - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Relevance Lab

We use the tool to move the target location from one location to another.

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MP
Cyber Security Analyst at Wipro Limited

We use the solution in our application deployment by configuring the server with the customer's specific port.

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Aditya Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have a lot of customers who are currently not on Amazon; they are running on-premise data centers. When they ask us to migrate, we migrate their applications to Amazon. Load Balancing is often a component we use. We use HTTPS port 443, and we integrate the load balancer with the applications.

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ZW
Strategy Manager with 201-500 employees

I am using the solution to manage the front end of the application. I have a service where multiple clients log in for usage. The solution helps in load balancing by distributing the traffic to the application.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Application Load Balancer is required for redirecting two or more instances. We have got two EKS instances running. So, we have to connect in a round-robin fashion based on when a request needs to be sent to one EKS and when it needs to be sent to another EKS. For this purpose, we use Application Load Balancer.

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