What is an ELB?

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ELB stands for Elastic Load Balancer, a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that automatically distributes incoming application or network traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. ELBs help improve the availability and fault tolerance of your applications by balancing the load and directing requests to healthy resources. There are different types of ELBs, including Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Classic Load Balancer, each suited for specific use cases. Using ELB allows you to scale your applications efficiently and handle varying levels of web traffic.