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How to Scale and Load Balance Your Architecture | AWS Academy Cloud Foundations Lab 6 Solution

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Lab 6 Solution: Scale & Load Balance Your Architecture | AWS Academy Cloud Foundations In AWS Academy Cloud Foundations Lab 6, students learn how to improve application availability, reliability, and scalability using Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. This lab demonstrates how AWS automatically distributes traffic across multiple instances and adjusts resources based on demand. Introduction Modern cloud applications must be capable of handling changing traffic patterns without affecting performance. AWS provides services such as Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to ensure applications remain highly available while optimizing infrastructure costs. This lab focuses on implementing these services in a practical environment. Lab Objectives Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from a running EC2 instance. Create and configure an Elastic Load Balancer. Create a Launch Configuration. Create an Auto Scaling Group. Configure automatic scaling b...