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LoadBalancerDescription

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LoadBalancerDescription - Elastic Load Balancing

Information about a load balancer.

Contents

AvailabilityZones.member.N

The Availability Zones for the load balancer.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

BackendServerDescriptions.member.N

Information about your EC2 instances.

Type: Array of BackendServerDescription objects

Required: No

CanonicalHostedZoneName

The DNS name of the load balancer.

For more information, see Configure a custom domain Name in the User Guide for Classic Load Balancers.

Type: String

Required: No

CanonicalHostedZoneNameID

The ID of the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone for the load balancer.

Type: String

Required: No

CreatedTime

The date and time the load balancer was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

DNSName

The DNS name of the load balancer.

Type: String

Required: No

HealthCheck

Information about the health checks conducted on the load balancer.

Type: HealthCheck object

Required: No

Instances.member.N

The IDs of the instances for the load balancer.

Type: Array of Instance objects

Required: No

ListenerDescriptions.member.N

The listeners for the load balancer.

Type: Array of ListenerDescription objects

Required: No

LoadBalancerName

The name of the load balancer.

Type: String

Required: No

Policies

The policies defined for the load balancer.

Type: Policies object

Required: No

Scheme

The type of load balancer. Valid only for load balancers in a VPC.

If Scheme is internet-facing, the load balancer has a public DNS name that resolves to a public IP address.

If Scheme is internal, the load balancer has a public DNS name that resolves to a private IP address.

Type: String

Required: No

SecurityGroups.member.N

The security groups for the load balancer. Valid only for load balancers in a VPC.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SourceSecurityGroup

The security group for the load balancer, which you can use as part of your inbound rules for your registered instances. To only allow traffic from load balancers, add a security group rule that specifies this source security group as the inbound source.

Type: SourceSecurityGroup object

Required: No

Subnets.member.N

The IDs of the subnets for the load balancer.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

VPCId

The ID of the VPC for the load balancer.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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