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Creating an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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Creating an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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- [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 the create load balancer button. And under application load balancer, press the create button. For name, type testalb. Under network mapping, select your default VPC. And for availability zones and subnets, select the two availability zones where your servers are running in. There will be a challenge later where we're going to add to this load balancer. So go ahead and pick a third availability zone and remember your selection. 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…

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