[tbelldesignco]

Hey I am also interested in how you get AWS work as a load balancer.

Load balancing is so important now for websites with good global traffic sources.

So if you can write more about this particular topic later on, that would be perfect.

Good Question! Part of the AWS Services offered, like Elastic Block Storage, S3 Storage Buckets, CloudFront CDN and the like is a load balancer. I've not played with it yet, but from what I've collected it will take the static IP of our EC2 container and use that as a "mask" over top of the load balancer. The load balancer then will delegate with CloudFront CDN, RDS (database) and so on how to best serve the content to the end user. Many things, like JS, CSS, static images and so on will be cached, and repeat database requests will be cached to prevent heavy load on our EC2 container. I will begin working on that here soon, and can provide more of an update of how the process works and maybe do an in-depth tutorial from A to Z on how to setup an AWS EC2 optimized for scalability.