About ELB

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Hello,

Thank you for activating Amazon Web Service's Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service. We would like to help you get started to make your experience with ELB better. We have put together a few documents, getting started videos and resources which we think will be useful as you familiarize yourself with this product.

Creating your first ELB:
A video introduction to ELB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcEqN8PeeI&feature=youtu.be
Getting Started: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-getting-started.html
ELB Best Practices: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479
FAQ's: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#elastic-load-balancing

A few How-Tos which will help you setup your ELB environment initially:
SSL Certificates: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/ssl-server-cert.html
Health Checks: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/ts-elb-healthcheck.html
Listener Configuration: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/using-elb-listenerconfig-quickref.html

After getting your ELB setup check out these other ELB features:
ELB access logs for detailed information for all requests made to your load balancer: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/access-log-collection.html
Monitoring your ELB with CloudWatch Metrics: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-cloudwatch-metrics.html
ELB features in detail: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-configure-load-balancer.html

Please let us know if you have any questions or if we can be of any assistance.

Best regards,
Amazon Web Services

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