ELB provides these features:
- Highly available: In ELB, incoming traffic will be distributed automatically between multiple targets such as Amazon EC2 instances, IP addresses, and containers in a single or multiple Availability Zones.
- Health checks: In ELB, it will detect unhealthy instances or targets. It will not send traffic to them. This traffic will be sent to healthy instances or targets.
- Security Features: You can create security groups in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and manage them. These security groups are associated with ELB and provide additional networking and security. You can create non-internet-facing or internal load balancers.
- TLS termination: ELB provides SSL decryption and integrated certificate management. ...
