Elastic Load Balancer is a service provided by Amazon Web Services. ELB handles all incoming traffic, distributes all requests across multiple EC2 instances that actually fulfill the requests, fetches the responses, and sends it back to the client. There are many load balancing algorithms supported by...
Introducing Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database service, or as it's known RDS, is a pre-packaged version of MySQL on Amazon services. Unlike it may seem, it's not just an EC2 instance with MySQL installed on it. The difference between RDS and EC2 with MySQL is that,...
The general idea behind using a load balancer is that it allows you to distribute the HTTP traffic across many nodes, i.e. Nginx is conncted to multiple backend servers (application servers ). Nginx handles all incoming requests, distributes them across the backend servers that actually...
