Integration With AWS Services

Amazon EC2

Runs your back-end application instances.

Auto Scaling

Creates capacity groups of instances that can grow or shrink on demand. For more information, go to the Auto Scaling Developer Guide.

Amazon CloudWatch

Collects the data provided by your load balancer and presents it as readable, near real-time metrics. These metrics can be used to monitor the health state of your instances. You can create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to send notification to an Auto Scaling policy if an individual metric goes outside of what you consider an acceptable range. For more information on using Amazon CloudWatch with your load balancer, see Monitoring Your Load Balancer Using CloudWatch. For information on Amazon CloudWatch go to the Amazon CloudWatch Developer Guide.

Amazon Route 53

Provides secure and reliable routing to your application instances. Route 53 automatically routes queries to the nearest DNS server in a global network of DNS servers, resulting in low latency. You can use Route 53 to translate friendly domain names like www.example.com into IP addresses like 192.0.2.1. For information on using Amazon Route 53 to create a custom domain name for your load balancer see Using Domain Names with Elastic Load Balancing. For information on Amazon Route 53, go to the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Manages users and user permissions in AWS. IAM provides central control over users and security credentials. Use IAM to create create multiple users who can use AWS products, each with individual security credentials, all controlled by a single AWS account. For information on specifying user permissions for Elastic Load Balancing resources, see Controlling User Access to Your AWS Account. For information on AWS Identity and Access Management, go to Using IAM.