AWS expanded the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service with a new product catered to high-performing applications. The Network Load Balancer is a Layer 4 TCP component designed to handle bursts of ...

Elastic Load Balancing: This feature allows users to distribute Web traffic across Amazon EC2 instances residing in one or more Availability Zones.

By spreading arriving traffic across several EC2 instances, AWS Load Balancing enhances fault tolerance and guarantees best resource use, hence complementing Auto Scaling.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer aims to 'make it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances'.

Amazon Web Services introduced a load balancing feature for containers within its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage virtual appliances such as firewalls or network monitoring systems in the cloud, the company said.