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# Load Balancer
It is a single point of contact for clients. The load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple nodes, in multiple Availability Zones. Simply, It controls the incomming traffic into a different nodes. It helps for redundancy process. For more information: \
**Following this need while setting up VPC** \
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**Step 1:** Create a VPC first -->Check out VPC module for more details on how to create VPC
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1. Create Application Load Balancer -> Name, Scheme, IPv4, Network mapping( Select at leat 2 zone), Security Group,
2. Create Target Group --> Select instances or IP , Name, select VPC, health check( set basic configurations)
I. Setup Register Targets --> Select instances, Once we create a target group, now register the traffice to LB
3. Set listern HTTP:80 to target group
5. Finally, Our Load Balancer setup is ready
Under Basic Configuration of LB: You can see DNS(A record) to access.
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