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Creating and configuring ELB

We are going to create instances in a default VPC and then we will configure load balancer to route the traffic to instances.

Let's create an instance in the free tier, then install Tomcat and deploy an application in it.

Go to Services | Compute | EC2 | Instances | Launch Instance:

Select Amazon Linux AMI. Keep the instance type as t2.micro:

Click on Next: Configure Instance Details.
Select the default VPC ...

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