A load balancer is a resource that can enable Internet and Yale-network-only web traffic to one or more EC2 VMs or ECS container replica(s). The load balancer holds the HTTPS certificate and serves as an encryption endpoint.
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General Considerations
Selecting a load balancer depends on your Data Classification.
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Name of the website or application
Desired Fully Qualified Domain Name (“FQDN”)
Brief description of the site or application.
NetId information for the site, application owner, COA for billing
IP address/AWS DNS Alias record of resource to be Load Balanced - i.e., EC2 IP address.
High Level Steps to Create an AWS ALB
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