Elastic Load Balancing in EC2 [closed]
It's been on the cards for a while, but now that Amazon have released Elastic Load balancing (ELB), what are your thoughts on deploying this solution for a high-traffic web application? Should we replace HAProxy or consider ELB as a complimentary service in front of HAProxy? arfon I've been running an ELB instead of HAProxy for about a month now on a site that gets about 100,000 visits per day, and I've been pretty pleased with the results. A gotcha though (UPDATE, this issue has been fixed by Amazon AWS , see comments below): You can't load balance the root of a domain as you have to create a