Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances. It monitors the health of registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. Elastic Load Balancing supports two types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers.

User Guide
Provides a conceptual overview of Elastic Load Balancing and information about the differences between Application and Classic Load Balancers.
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Application Load Balancer Guide
Provides detailed instructions for using Application Load Balancers.
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AWS CLI Reference
Provides syntax and examples for the AWS CLI commands for use with Application Load Balancers.
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  API Reference
Provides syntax and examples for the API actions for use with Application Load Balancers.
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Classic Load Balancer Guide
Provides detailed instructions for using Classic Load Balancers.
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AWS CLI Reference
Provides syntax and examples for the AWS CLI commands for use with Classic Load Balancers.
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  API Reference
Provides syntax and examples for the API actions for use with Classic Load Balancers.
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