Creating and configuring an ELB

We are going to create instances in a default VPC, and then we will configure the 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:

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

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

3. Click on Next: Configure Instance Details.
4. Select the default VPC and subnet to launch the instance. Click on Next: Add Storage:

5. Keep the default settings and select Next: Add Tags. 
6. Add tags if required and click on Next: Configure Security Group.

7. Select the default security group or create a new security group. Click on Review and Launch:

8. Review all the configured details and click on Launch.
9. Select the key-pair available to you so that you can access...