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title: "Intro to Horizontal Scaling, Load Balancing, Immutable Infrastructure with AWS"
date: "2021-09-27T18:07:35Z"
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description: "Load balancing and horizontally scaling a web app using immutable infrastructure on AWS with custom AMIs."
tags: ['aws', 'cloud computing', 'iac', 'infra as code', 'immutable infrastructure', 'horizontal scaling', 'load balancing', 'nginx', 'web app', 'web server']
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Load balancing and horizontally scaling a web app using immutable infrastructure on AWS with custom AMIs.

## Chapters:

* 0:00​ Intro
* 0:30 Theory
* 2:47 Creating an AMI
* 8:58 Scaling the App
* 11:40 Load Balancing with Nginx
* 17:25 Summary

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