Cross-zone load balancing
Load balancing across multiple availability zones can be done in two different ways. When we're creating or configuring a load balancer, we have the ability to either enable or disable the cross-zone load balancing feature.
When cross-zone load balancing is disabled, each availability zone will receive an equal amount of load, regardless of the number of instances in the availability zones. For example, if we are load balancing across two availability zones, then each availability zone will be receiving half the traffic, whereas when we load balance across three availability zones, then each will receive one-third of the traffic. This is demonstrated in the following diagram, where the traffic is distributed across ...
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