In this course, you will learn about the service benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of Network Load Balancer. The load balancing service functions at the fourth layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It distributes incoming TCP/UDP traffic across multiple targets such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, containers, and IP addresses. NLB monitors the health of the targets using health checks and routes traffic only to healthy targets. NLB maintains a single static IP address per Availability Zone and scales as incoming traffic changes, handling up to millions of requests per second.
- Course level: Fundamental
- Duration: 2 hours
Activities
- This course includes presentations, graphics, demonstrations, and practical applications.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Understand how Network Load Balancer works
- Understand technical concepts of Network Load Balancer
- List typical use cases for Network Load Balancer
- Specify what it would take to implement Network Load Balancer in a real-world scenario
- Recognize the benefits of Network Load Balancer
- Explain the cost structure of Network Load Balancer
- Show how to use Network Load Balancer from the AWS Management Console
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Developers
- Solutions architects
- Data engineers
- Business analysts
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- AWS Technical Essentials
Course outline
- Network Load Balancer purpose and functionality
- Network Load Balancer in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Network Load Balancer typical use cases
- How to use Network Load Balancer
- Network Load Balancer cost structure
- Network Load Balancer technical concepts
- Network Load Balancer demonstration
