Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) tqassam it-traffic li daħel fuq moltitudni ta' targets (EC2 instances, containers, eċċ.) — tittejjeb l-availability (l-ebda punt wieħed ta' falliment) u scalability (tqassam il-load). Hija komponenta ewlenija għal applikazzjonijiet affidabbli u skalabbli.
X'jagħmel load balancer
A LOAD BALANCER sits in front of multiple backend targets and distributes requests:
Client → LOAD BALANCER → ┬→ Instance 1
├→ Instance 2
└→ Instance 3
→ spreads traffic across targets (scalability + no single instance overloaded)
→ HEALTH CHECKS: routes only to HEALTHY targets (an unhealthy one is bypassed)
→ if a target fails, traffic goes to the others → HIGH AVAILABILITY
→ single entry point (clients hit the LB, not individual instances)
