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title: "AWS Auto Scaling Groups and Load Balancers"
date: "2021-11-08T16:02:07Z"
slug: "aws-auto-scaling-groups-and-load-balancers"
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description: "Learn how to use Auto Scaling Groups and Application Load Balancers in AWS. "
tags: ['aws', 'cloud computing', 'ec2', 'devops', 'iac', 'infrastructure as code']
---

Learn how to use Auto Scaling Groups and Application Load Balancers in AWS. 

An auto scaling group will automatically manage the creation and destruction of EC2 instances while elastic load balancers can balance network traffic between the instances. 


## Chapters:

* 0:00​ Intro
* 1:58 Launch Template
* 5:22 Auto Scaling Group
* 9:27 Application Load Balancer
* 12:28 Target Group
* 14:28 Testing the Load Balancer
* 15:53 Connecting Scaling Group and Load Balancer
* 18:36 Updating EC2 Instances
* 21:42 SSL Certificate
* 24:13 Route 53 Record
* 25:39 Summary

🔗Other tutorials:
Intro to Horizontal Scaling, Load Balancing, Immutable Infrastructure with AWS: [https://youtu.be/FEbfvTZCYQQ](https://youtu.be/FEbfvTZCYQQ)
Intro to Packer with AWS (Creating AMIs): [https://youtu.be/dde-bWUeRMo](https://youtu.be/dde-bWUeRMo)
Cloud-init and Terraform with AWS: [https://sammeechward.com/cloud-init-and-terraform-with-aws/](https://sammeechward.com/cloud-init-and-terraform-with-aws/)
Cloud Computing Playlist: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0X6fGhFFNTcU-_MCPe9dkH6sqmgfhy_M](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0X6fGhFFNTcU-_MCPe9dkH6sqmgfhy_M)