ELB is Amazon's managed Load Balancer service, used in conjunction with its EC2 virtual machine cloud hosting service.
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OpsWorks Auto Healing instances that fail ELB (load balancer) test
From the AWS documentation I understand that some kind of unresponsiveness from an instance will cause it to be terminated. There is nothing in the docs that would suggest that ELB health checks can be used to mark instance as failed.
What, if…

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Elastic Load Balancer and Varnish on Each Node
We want to install Varnish on our nodes that are handled by an Auto-Scaling Group and ELB. These servers currently grow and contract based on load from 2-10 nodes. We do not want to have another "master" varnish server due to cost implications. …

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AWS ELB health check potentially remove all instances
So, when using AWS ELB, there's a health check url we use to ping db server / check out bound connection, etc.
If there are unhealthy instances, they are removed. But if the db server is down, our web server is designed to continue function to the…

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How do I rotate an SSL Certificate as requested by AWS
Amazon AWS sent an email today that users using Elasic Load Balancing (ELB) service with SSL certificates should "Rotate" them for precaution (Heartbleed bug).
How exactly do I rotate an ssl certificate?
AWS Original Message:
"The OpenSSL project…

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ELB Health Checks incorrectly failing / being unhealthy
Over the weekend, our instances have started being marked as unhealthy, and not being enabled within the load balancer.
When going to the public DNS of the instance, followed by the healthcheck.html file, I instantly receive a 200 OK response, but…

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How do I configure AWS to host my apex domain?
I have several apex domains that all point to the same website. I am migrating it to AWS, and I need to figure out how to route requests to my ELB. I know I can't create a CNAME, but what are my other options?
What I really need looks like…

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Avoid Man in Middle AWS load balancer
I have a load balancer configurated with the port 443 to port 80 of the ec2 servers and with a sniffer like Burtsuite can I edit the request. How can configure the ELB to avoid this type of attack?.
For example when I access to this script…

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What sort of updates do ELB properties support (for CloudFormation)?
Question: What type of updates do each ELB property support?
I'm reading through the ELB CF docs:
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-elb.html
On the page it states…

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How do I host multiple SSL websites on a single EC2 instance using Amazon Elastic Load Balancers?
If I have 3 separate websites which all require SSL (separate certificates) that I want to host on the same EC2 instance(s) across multiple availability zones so that we have the ability to scale and be highly available, how do I achieve this using…

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Multiple Amazon EC2 With Load Balancing And MongoDB
I have an Amazon EC2 server where we run a webapp and MongoDB.
We want add a second EC2 server and a Load Balancing to the same region. Load Balancing will
redirect all web requests (80 and 443) to the EC2 servers.
Can someone give me some general…

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What on my EC2 CentOS vm is dropping ELB HTTP packets but not direct connections?
I've got a simple webserver (apache only) running on CentOS's AMI on AWS inside a VPC. I've got both AWS Security Groups and iptables opened up for port 80, with no source requirements. I then set up an Elastic Load Balancer to direct traffic to the…

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Cloud formation - updating a stack behind an elb doesnt update the AMI
We are powering our AWS EC2 instances using cloud formation. We have 3 different stacks - testing, staging and production. Our workflow to update the images for any of the stacks is as follows:
Update a 'golden master' instance
Snapshot the golden…

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Possible for HAProxy to perform a mix of SSL termination and passthrough?
I'm working on analyzing an intermittent load balancing failure in our application.
Previously we had been using the AWS Elastic Load Balancer in the following configuration:
HTTP 80 -> HTTP 80
HTTPS 443 -> HTTPS 443, presenting the same certificate…

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Amazon's ELB + Instances = High Latency?
I have a single instance running which is sitting behind their load balancer.
When I use apache's benchmark utility and point it at the instance the response time is more often than not, under 50ms. When I point ab at the load balancer the response…

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Using htaccess with Elastic Load Balancer and Route 53
I have transfered my DNS to Route 53 and currently use an alias record to point my www.domain.com and domain.com to my Elastic Load Balancer.
Both work great but my problem is when I try to use an htaccess file to redirect non-www to www. It just…

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