Glossary term
What is Load balancer?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Load balancer" means: A traffic director that spreads visitors across several servers and skips the unhealthy ones. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Content delivery network (CDN), Auto Scaling, DNS and CloudWatch. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Load balancer?
A traffic director that spreads visitors across several servers and skips the unhealthy ones.
Where is Load balancer taught?
Load balancer is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover Load balancer?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 5.4: The path of a request: DNS, content delivery, load balancing and scaling
Which terms are related to Load balancer?
Next to Load balancer in the course glossaries: Content delivery network (CDN), Auto Scaling, DNS, CloudWatch, Security group, CloudTrail, Subnet and Well-Architected Framework.
Content delivery network (CDN)Auto ScalingDNSCloudWatchSecurity groupCloudTrailSubnetWell-Architected Framework
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Load balancer?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.