In the previous post we created our certificates in the Certificate Manager, in this post we are going to create four instances using a Launch Template so that we could use it in our load balancer.
1. We are actually going to use "Launch Template" to create our instances, so click on "Launch Templates" under "Instances" in the EC2 Dashboard
In this post we are going to set up our website to serve up https traffic so that our traffic can be encrypted. In this post the first part of the series we are going to request a certificate from the Certificate Manager in AWS.
1. The first thing we need to do is create a certificate, In the AWS search field search for Certificate Manager then click on the drop down auto complete choice.
In this pose we are going to implement auto scaling on our instances. Auto scaling is a feature on AWS that automatically scaled horizontally either based on metrics or the health of an instance. In this post we are going to setup auto scaling on an Application Load Balancer.
1. The first thing we have to do is setup an Auto Scaling Group under "Auto Scaling" click on "Auto Scaling Groups"
In the previous post we went over how to create a Application Load Balancer, based on routes in the URL. In this post we are going to change the rules so that it directs traffic based on host names. For example we could have acmebanking.com route to target group 1 and accounts.acmebanking.com route to target group 2. It's the same concept as the previous setup but instead of routes, we are using hostnames instead.
In order to implement this solution we need to setup a record in Route 53, which is AWS domain registration service. You can follow along with the DNS names, but if you have a hostname registered with AWS that's even better.
1. So the first thing you want to do is go to Route 53 dashboard, go to Hosted Zones
