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Create a Network Load Balancer on AWS

In this lab, you'll practice creating a Network Load Balancer. When you're finished, you'll have a Network Load Balancer that forwards requests to a set of web servers running on EC2 instances.

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Lab info

Rating (250)

Level

Intermediate

Duration

25m

Released

Sep 22, 2021

Lab author

Lab Author: Wes Novack

Wes is a Technology Leader, Architect and Engineer specializing in public cloud systems and web scale SaaS Operations. He has designed, built, and managed applications and systems that enable highly-available infrastructure, continuous delivery pipelines, and rapid releases in large, polyglot microservice ecosystems. Wes uses a variety of languages, frameworks, and tooling to build applications, define Infrastructure as Code, drive automation, and eliminate toil. He is vocal in the tech communit... more

Challenge

Create a Network Load Balancer

You'll create a Network Load Balancer that directs traffic to a set of EC2 instances that are running web servers.

Challenge

Verify the Web Page Through the Load Balancer

Now that you've created the Network Load Balancer and pointed it to your web servers, you will verify that the website works through the Load Balancer.

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Provided environment for hands-on practice

We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.

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Guided walkthrough

Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

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Recommended prerequisites

EC2 instances
Security Groups
Load Balancers
Web servers

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