AWS: Get Started with EC2 Load Balancer & Auto-Scaling Group

Name: AWS: Get Started with EC2 Load Balancer & Auto-Scaling Group
Rating: 4.5 (88 reviews)

A beginner's guide to two key platforms in AWS's EC2 service - the load balancer and the auto-scaling group.

(88 ratings)

5,980 students

Created by Savitra Sirohi

Last updated 1/2019

English

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What you'll learn

AWS load balancer
AWS Auto-scaling groups
AWS EC2

Requirements

Your own AWS account
Some familiarity with AWS and EC2 is assumed

Description

Understand and get started with LB and ASG, two key platforms in AWS's EC2 service.
Understand how these platforms help us achieve high availability and scalability at low cost.
Implement a load balancer.
Implement an auto-scaling group.
Test your implementation using a simple app.
Try 3 different ways of scaling the auto-scaling group - manual, using scheduled policies and using auto-scaling policies.

Who this course is for:

AWS Beginners
Those targeting AWS certification exams
No programming or system administration skills required

Savitra Sirohi

AWS Solutions Architect

4.2 Instructor Rating
434 Reviews
14,257 Students
2 Courses

20 years of IT experience, and an early AWS adopter (2008). Helped establish an AWS based SaaS business, managed P&L for a portfolio of products built on top of AWS and coached a team of system admins and developers on AWS for several years. Teach a webinar style AWS solutions architecture course, have taught over 500 people in the last 2 years. I am AWS certified (Solutions Architect - Associate level).