Internet-facing ELB
- Load balancer can be
- internal facing to VPC only
- internet facing
- nodes have public IP address
- internet facing has a public DNS name which resolves to public IP
- it routes requests received from Internet to specific or destined EC2 instances
- EC2 instances which are registered load balancer receive the requests
- For VPC having a load balancer with Classic Link, EC2-Classic instances can be linked
- EC2-VPC Load balancers
- Supports only IPv4 addresses
- EC2-Classic Load balancers
- Support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.